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Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is for the good of the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so: there must be in every instance a higher authority, viz., GOD.
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Beck emphasizes the necessity of a higher moral authority beyond parliamentary declarations.
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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.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.
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