They had suffered grievously for more than ten years from misrule and had a distaste for mere phrase-making, of which they had had a satiety, for the Constitution, in which there is not a wasted word, is as cold and dry a document as a problem in mathematics or a manual of parliamentary law.
Beck describes the framers' distaste for empty rhetoric, emphasizing the Constitution's precise language.
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And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
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It is indeed passing strange that in these days of cheap books and free education, America should be almost a 'terra incognita,' that we should know next to nothing of American history, of the American Constitution, of American practical…
This is as it should be, for--for better or worse--England and America will play together a great part in the future history of the world.
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