Those Americans who, for the reasons stated, are not in sympathy with the structural form and political objectives of the League, are not lacking in sympathy for its admirable administrative work in co-ordinating the activities of civilized nations for the common good.
Beck acknowledges the administrative merits of the League of Nations despite political disagreements.
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The men who framed the Covenant of the League tried to do, under more difficult, but not dissimilar, conditions, what the framers of the American Constitution did in 1787.
The spirit of man had a new birth and was breaking away from the too rigid bonds of ancient custom and authority.
It made the judiciary the final conscience of the nation.
They nobly conceived that human society was a single unit and that it was governed by a law that was both antecedent and paramount to the law of Rome.
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