They were as little inclined to permit the President of the United States to make treaties or declare war at will in their behalf as the European nations would be to-day to vest a similar authority in the League of Nations.
He compares the framers' views on presidential power to contemporary international relations.
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Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.
We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
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