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Closely allied to this doctrine of limited governmental powers, even by a majority, is the fourth principle of an independent judiciary.
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Beck connects the principle of limited governmental powers to the necessity of an independent judiciary.
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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.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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.
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