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This system of checks and balances again illustrates that the Constitution is the great negation of unrestrained democracy.
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This statement illustrates how the Constitution serves to limit unrestrained democracy through its system of checks and balances.
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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.
That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
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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