This assumes that the Constitution sprang, like Minerva, armed cap-à-pie, from the brain of the American people, whereas it was as much the result of a slow, laborious, and painful evolution as was the British Constitution.
Beck critiques the notion that the Constitution emerged suddenly, instead highlighting its evolutionary process.
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We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
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.
That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
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