It is not too much to say that the success with which the framers of the Constitution reconciled national supremacy and efficiency with local self-government is one of the great achievements in the history of mankind.
Beck highlights the successful balance achieved by the framers of the Constitution between national authority and local governance.
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Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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.
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.
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