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It is not only one of the great achievements of that gens aeterna, but also one of the great monuments of human progress.
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Beck regards the Constitution as a significant achievement in human progress.
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Other nations may not take it so literally, but with our life-long adherence to a written Constitution as a solemn contractual obligation, we do.
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