On the record
To have prescribed the means by which government should in all future times execute its powers would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument and to give it the properties of a legal code.
Source
gutenberg.orgJames Beck: “To have prescribed the means by which government should in all future times execute its powers would have been to change…”
Editor's note · Context
Beck argues that a rigid legal code would undermine the Constitution's character and purpose.
Share
More from James Beck
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
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.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
Other voices in this conversation
