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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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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.
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James Beck
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Beck suggests that either the representatives or their constituencies uphold fundamental liberties in Parliament.

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