James Beck: “Let it be emphasized that they did this, not by seeking more power, but by imposing restraints upon themselves.”

Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.

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 did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.

Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.