The Constitution is neither, on the one hand, a Gibraltar rock, which wholly resists the ceaseless washing of time or circumstance, nor is it, on the other hand, a sandy beach, which is slowly destroyed by the erosion of the waves.
Beck uses a metaphor to describe the Constitution's resilience and adaptability over time.
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It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
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