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In this they were true prophets, for the American people have refused to limit democracy as narrowly and rigidly as the framers of the Constitution clearly intended.
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Beck argues that the American public has diverged from the framers' original intent regarding democracy.
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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!
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
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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.
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