On the other hand, this change of attitude has led, in many instances, to government by organized minorities, for, with the division of the masses into political parties, it is easy for an organized minority to hold the balance of power, and thus impress its will upon majorities.
Beck warns about the risks of organized minorities dominating political power in a divided electorate.
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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.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.
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