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Let it be emphasized that they did this, not by seeking more power, but by imposing restraints upon themselves.
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Beck emphasizes the importance of self-restraint in the formation of the Constitution.
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They nobly conceived that human society was a single unit and that it was governed by a law that was both antecedent and paramount to the law of Rome.
We have been trained for nearly a century and a half to measure the validity and obligations of laws and executive acts in Courts of Justice and to apply the plain import of the Constitution.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and just can repair.
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