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Nothing more strikingly shows the spirit of unity which the Constitution brought into being than the unbroken success with which the Supreme Court has discharged this difficult and most delicate duty.
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Beck reflects on the Supreme Court's successful role in upholding the unity of the Constitution.
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It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
The greatest and noblest purpose of the Constitution was not alone to hold in nicest equipose the relative powers of the nation and the States, but also to maintain in the scales of justice a true equilibrium between the rights of…
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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