Nothing is more admirable than the self-restraint of men who, venturing upon an untried experiment, and after debating for four months upon the principles of government, were content to embody their conclusions in not more than four thousand words.
Beck commends the self-restraint of the framers in creating a concise yet impactful Constitution.
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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.
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.
The greatest and noblest purpose of the Constitution was not alone to hold in nicest equipose the relative powers of the nation and the States, but also to maintain in the scales of justice a true equilibrium between the rights of…
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