After the lapse of six thousand years since the creation of the world, America now presents the first instance of a people assembled to say deliberately and calmly and to decide leisurely and peaceably on the form of government by which they will bind themselves and their posterity.
Beck highlights the unprecedented nature of the American Constitutional Convention in the context of history.
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We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
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.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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