The founders of the Republic were not fools, and while they did not, as Gladstone seems to intimate, have the inspired wisdom to develop a wonderful Constitution by sheer intuition unaided by experience, they did have the ability to make of their very errors the stepping-stones to a higher destiny.
Beck defends the founders' ability to learn from their mistakes in creating the Constitution.
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That vision will remain with them as long, and no longer, as there is in their hearts a conscious and willing acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.
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.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
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