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The United States, however, embodied it in its form of government and thus made the judiciary, and especially the Supreme Court, the balance wheel of the Constitution.
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Beck emphasizes the role of the judiciary in maintaining the balance of power within the U.S. government.
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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.
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.
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.
It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
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