For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Beck reflects on the inherent challenges of collective decision-making in a constitutional convention.
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We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
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