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When the moral anarchy out of which it was born is called to mind, it can be truly said that while "sown in weakness, it was raised in power.
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Beck reflects on the Constitution's emergence from a period of moral chaos, highlighting its strength.
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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!
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
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.
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