It preferred to give the President and the members of Congress a fixed term of office, and, however unpopular they might become temporarily, they should have the right and the opportunity to proceed even with unpopular policies, and thus challenge the final verdict of the people.
Beck argues that fixed terms allow elected officials to pursue unpopular policies without immediate repercussions.
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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.
We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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