If a parliamentary form of government, immediately responsive to current opinion as registered in elections, is the great desideratum, then the fixed tenure of offices is the vulnerable Achilles-heel of our form of government.
Beck critiques the fixed tenure of office as a weakness in the American government system compared to parliamentary systems.
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It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
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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