James Beck: “The lust has obsessed him, without regard to whether it be constructive or destructive.”

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

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.

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.