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To this we owe the elasticity of the instrument.
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Beck attributes the Constitution's flexibility to the framers' choices in its design.
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But all three spring from one root; all three are carried out by men of like political ideals; all three are destined to promote the cause of ordered liberty throughout the world.
It made the judiciary the final conscience of the nation.
They differed, at times heatedly, but always as gentlemen of candour and honour.
We have been trained for nearly a century and a half to measure the validity and obligations of laws and executive acts in Courts of Justice and to apply the plain import of the Constitution.
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