Five centuries later the greatest of the Roman lawyers and orators, Cicero, spoke in the same terms of a higher law, "which was never written and which we are never taught, which we never team by reading, but which was drawn by nature herself.
Beck cites Cicero to emphasize the existence of a higher law that is not formally written.
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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.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
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