Bacon, Sandys, Southampton and the Liberal leaders of the House of Commons had implanted in the ideas of the colonists the spirit of constitutionalism, which was destined to influence profoundly the whole development of the American colonies, and finally to culminate in the Constitution of the United States.
Beck emphasizes the influence of early Liberal leaders on the constitutional ideas that shaped the American colonies and the U.S. Constitution.
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Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
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.
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