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It marked, on the part of millions of men, a portentous decay of belief in representative government and its chosen organ--the ballot box.
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Beck notes a significant decline in faith in representative government and the electoral process among the populace.
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I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them.
We have been trained for nearly a century and a half to measure the validity and obligations of laws and executive acts in Courts of Justice and to apply the plain import of the Constitution.
Again the words of Washington suggest themselves: "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and just can repair.
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