James Beck: “Remember that Our Lady, the Common Law, is not a task-mistress, but a bountiful sovereign, whose service is freedom.”

Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.

The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.

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.

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.