James Beck: “Thus, I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the…”

Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.

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

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.

Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.