James Beck: “They believed that the greater such power, the greater the danger of its abuse.”

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.

Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.

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

The greatest and noblest purpose of the Constitution was not alone to hold in nicest equipose the relative powers of the nation and the States, but also to maintain in the scales of justice a true equilibrium between the rights of…