This can only be true because either your representatives in Parliament have a deep sense of constitutional morality, or that the constituencies which select them have so much sense of constitutional justice that their representatives dare not disregard these fundamental decencies of liberty.
James Beck: “This can only be true because either your representatives in Parliament have a deep sense of constitutional morality, or…”
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Beck suggests that either the representatives or their constituencies uphold fundamental liberties in Parliament.
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That vision will remain with them as long, and no longer, as there is in their hearts a conscious and willing acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
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It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.





