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This conception of individualism, enforced in courts of law against executives and legislatures, was wholly new and is the distinguishing characteristic of American constitutionalism.
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Beck describes the novel concept of individualism in American constitutionalism that protects citizens from government overreach.
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Again the words of Washington suggest themselves: "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?
It made the judiciary the final conscience of the nation.
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.
I do so, because it has a direct bearing on the decay of the spirit of constitutionalism both in America and elsewhere.
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