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As to the subtler and more insidious crimes against the political state, it is enough to say that graft has become a science in city, state and nation.
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Beck critiques the pervasive corruption in government at all levels.
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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.
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…
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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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