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Even in the narrower confine of the latter, the fires of revolution are either violently burning, or, at least, smouldering.
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Beck describes the revolutionary sentiments that are present even within stable political systems.
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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.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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!
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…
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