As I have already shown in my first lecture, credit was gone, business paralysed, lawlessness triumphant, and not only between class and class, but between State and State, there were acute controversies and an alarming disunity of spirit.
Beck outlines the dire economic and social conditions that plagued the nation before the Constitution was adopted, emphasizing the need for unity.
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Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
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.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
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