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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Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
The greatest and noblest purpose of the Constitution was not alone to hold in nicest equipose the relative powers of the nation and the States, but also to maintain in the scales of justice a true equilibrium between the rights of…
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.
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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