In your country the power of Parliament is omnipotent, and yet in its legislation it voluntarily observes these great fundamental decencies of liberty which in the American Constitution are protected by formal guarantees.
This quote contrasts the omnipotent power of Parliament in England with the protections offered by the American Constitution.
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But all three spring from one root; all three are carried out by men of like political ideals; all three are destined to promote the cause of ordered liberty throughout the world.
In any study of a World Constitution, the example of those who framed the American Constitution can be studied with profit.
This experience has convinced me that now, more than ever before, there is in England a deep interest in American institutions and their history.
James Beck profoundly influenced the judgment of the neutral world and vindicated, by his masterly and sympathetic argument, the justice of our cause.
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