On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility--and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Beck urges members of the convention to reconsider their objections and show unity by signing the Constitution.
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We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
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!
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
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