James Beck: “The Constitution is something more than a written formula of government--it is a great spirit.”

The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.

Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.

Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.

Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.