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"Be it so," answered Black Ivo, "this night belike I shall hang thee
above the ruins of Belsaye yonder, and thy son with thee!" So saying,
he turned about and chin on fist rode into his camp, where was mounting
and mustering in hot haste.
"Beltane," spake the Duchess, clasping Beltane's hand, "dost know at
last?"
"Aye... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"Giles," said she, "thou wert true and faithful to my lord when his
friends were few, so methinks thou should'st be faithful and true to
thy sweet Genevra--so will I make thee Steward and Bailiff of Mortain
an my lord is in accord--"
"Lord," quoth Giles brokenly, "ere thou dost speak, beseech thee hear
this. I have th... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"For that, dear Benedict," cried she, "for that shalt kiss me, so off
with thy great helm!" Forthwith Sir Benedict did off his casque, and
stooping, kissed her full-lipped, and meeting Beltane's eye, flushed
and laughed and was solemn all in a moment.
"Ah, Beltane, dear lad," quoth he, "I envy thee and grieve for thee... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
Meantime, Black Ivo's archers advancing, fell into arrow formation and
began to ply the Mortain ranks with clouds of shafts and bolts 'neath
which divers men and horses fell--what time Black Ivo's massed columns
moved slowly forward to the attack--yet Duke Beltane, sitting among his
knights, stirred not, and the army ... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
With Helen's soft hand a-tremble in his, Beltane hasted down from the
tower and Sir Benedict followed, until they were come to the square
where, amid the joyful acclaim of the populace, their small and hardy
following were drawn up; and, as they came, from townsfolk and soldiery
a shout arose:
"Beltane--the Duke--the ... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
Then Beltane sighed, and kneeling, kissed his lady's white hands:
"Beloved," spake he low-voiced, "e'en now must I go from thee, but
howsoever fortune tend--thine am I through life--aye, and beyond."
"Beltane," she whispered 'twixt quivering lips, "O loved Beltane, take
heed to thy dear body, cover thee well with thy ... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"Lord," said he, blinking bright eyes, "we have fought well ere now,
but to-day methinks we shall fight as ne'er we fought in all our days."
"Aye," nodded Beltane, "verily, Giles, methinks we shall!"
Thus saying, he turned and looked upon the rolling battle-dust and
settling his feet within the stirrups, clenched iron... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"And I pray God," spake the Duchess, shivering, "these eyes may ne'er
look upon another! O 'tis hateful sight--see--look yonder!" and she
pointed where from the awful battle-wrack reeled men faint with wounds
while others dragged themselves painfully across the trampled ground.
"Why, 'twas a bloody business!" quoth th... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"Up, man," he panted, covering the prostrate archer with his shield,
"up, Giles, an ye can--we're close beset--"
"But we be here, look'ee Roger--'tis we, look'ee!" cried a voice
behind.
"Aye, it do be us!" roared another voice, and Roger's assailants were
borne back by a line of vicious-thrusting pikes.
"Art hurt, Gil... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
Presently before them the ground sloped sharply down, and while Beltane
shouted warning to those behind, his voice was drowned in sudden
trumpet-blast, and glancing to his left, he beheld at last all those
knights and men-at-arms who had ridden with his father in their reserve
all day--a glittering column, rank on ran... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
Now of a sudden a shout went up and thereafter was a great quiet--a
silence wherein friend and foe, panting and weary, stood alike at gaze.
And amid this expectant hush the two Dukes of Pentavalon fronted each
other. No word said they, but, while all eyes watched them, each took
lance and riding to the extremity of th... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
In a while Beltane came forth into the courtyard and beheld Sir Jocelyn
mustering their knightly prisoners in the ward below, for, with Black
Ivo's death, all resistance was ended. And now the trumpets blared,
rallying their various companies, but Beltane abode very full of
sorrowful thoughts. To him presently cometh ... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
Now as he spake he loosed a corner of the war-cloak, and from its
grimed and ghastly folds there rolled forth into the red light of the
cleanly sun a thing that trundled softly across the pavement and
stopping, shewed a pallid face crowned with red hair, 'neath which upon
the brow, betwixt the staring eyes, was a jagg... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"The world doth change, as change it must,
But true-love changeth never.
Proud ambition is but dust,
The bow doth break, the sword doth rust,
But love abideth ever."
Beltane was leaning half out of the casement, of the which fact who so
unconscious as Giles, busily furbishing armour and bascinet.
"Giles!... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"Such things do wait upon success, Beltane, and moreover thou'rt Duke!
Aye, verily thou'rt Duke! The which mindeth me that, being Duke, it
behoveth thee--"
"And yet, Benedict, I do tell thee that all things must wait awhile,
methinks, or better--do you attend them for me--"
"Nay--I am no Duke!" quoth Sir Benedict hast... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
Quoth Sir Benedict, as with Roger's aid Beltane did on his armour:
"There is a postern beyond the pleasaunce yonder shall bring you forth
of the city and no man the wiser."
"Why, then, bring ye the horses thither, Roger, and haste ye!"
Now when Roger was gone, Sir Benedict arose and setting his hands on
Beltane's shou... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
Soon were they free of the city and reaching that rolling down where
the battle had raged so lately, Beltane set his horse to a stretching
gallop, and away they raced, over upland and lowland until they beheld
afar to their right the walls and towers of Belsaye. But on they rode
toward the green of the woods, and ever... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"Forsooth," quoth Giles at last, "as thou sayest, Roger, the world
waggeth well with me. Hast heard, belike, our lady Duchess hath been
pleased to--"
"Aye, I've heard, my lord Bailiff--who hath not?"
"Nay, I did but mention it to two or three," quoth Giles. "Moreover our
lord doth smile on me these days, though forsoo... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"Here is a fair song, methinks; dost not wonder at love now, Roger, and
the glory of it?"
"I wonder," quoth Roger, "how long thou shalt believe all this when
thou art wed. I wonder how long thou wilt live true to her when she is
thy wife!"
Now hereupon the archer's comely face grew red, grew pale, his bronzed
hands fl... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"Giles!"
"Aye, Roger!"
"Forgive me!"
But Giles neither turned nor spake, wherefore contrite Roger must needs
set an arm about him and turn him about, and behold, the archer's eyes
were brimming with great tears!
"O Giles!" gasped Roger, "O Giles!"
"Roger, I--I do love her, man--I do love her, heart and soul! Is this
s... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"How mean you, Pardoner?"
"Lord Duke, when thou didst bestow life on two poor rogues upon a time,
when one rogue stole away minded to betray thee to thine enemy, the
second rogue did steal upon the first rogue, and this second rogue bare
a small knife whereof the first rogue suddenly died. And thus Duke Ivo,
thine ene... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"Art wondrous skilled in wood-lore, my Rogerkin!" quoth Giles.
"Forsooth, lord, there is no man knoweth more of forestry than my good
comrade Roger!"
"So will I make of him my chiefest huntsman, Giles--"
"Master--O master!" gasped Roger.
"And set thee over all my foresters of Pentavalon, Roger."
"Why master, I--forsoo... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
"And thou art come back to me at last. Beltane! Hast brought to me my
heart unharmed from the battle, beloved! And thou didst take no hurt--
no hurt, my Beltane? And art glad to see--thy--wife, Beltane? And dost
love me--as much as ever, Beltane? O wilt never, never leave me
desolate again, my lord--art thou mine--min... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
Then, while Beltane, speaking not, watched her downbent head and busy
hands, she filed off his fetters one by one, and kissing them, set them
aside.
But when she would have risen he prevented her, and with reverent
fingers touched the coiled and braided glory of her hair.
"O Helen," he whispered, "loose me down thy ha... | Beltane the Smith | Farnol, Jeffery | 1878 | 1952 | ['en'] | 30 | {'Blacksmiths -- Fiction'} | PG10064 | |
[Illustration: _Photo Henry Dixon & Son_ _From the Portrait painted by
Harrington Mann for Gray's Inn_]
JAMES M. BECK
HONORARY BENCHER OF GRAY'S INN
_The Constitution of the United States_
_A brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of
the Constitution of the United States_
_By James M. Beck, ... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The framers of the American Constitution were faced with an entirely new
problem, so far, at all events, as the English-speaking world was
concerned; and though they founded their doctrines upon the English
traditions of law and liberty, they had to deal with circumstances which
none of their British progenitors had t... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
[Footnote 2: Address of Sir John Simon on the conclusion, on June
19,1922, of the three lectures herein printed.]
_Author's Introduction_
This book is a result of three lectures, which were delivered in the
Hall of Gray's Inn, London, on June 13, 15, and 19, 1922, respectively,
under the auspices and on the invitati... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
I also must not fail to acknowledge the generous space given in the
British Press to these lectures, and the even more generous allusions to
them in the editorial columns. An especial acknowledgment is due to
Viscount Burnham and _The Daily Telegraph_ for their generous interest
in this book. The good cause of Anglo-A... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The success of my Gray's Inn lectures convinces me that Dr. Sarolea
underestimates the interest in America and its history in England.
However, the episode, which is treated in these lectures, is, as he
says, "_terra incognita_" not only in England, but even in the United
States. It is amazing how little is known in A... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Therefore, while in these nations the literal obligations of Articles X,
XI, XV, and XVI of the Covenant of the League are not taken rigidly, we
in America, pursuant to our life-long habit of constitutionalism,
interpret these clauses as we do those of our Constitution, and we ask
ourselves, Are we ready to promise to... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION
FIRST LECTURE: THE GENESIS OF THE CONSTITUTION
SECOND LECTURE: THE FORMULATION OF THE CONSTITUTION
THIRD LECTURE: THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE CONSTITUTION
THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY
_I. The Genesis of the Constitution of the United States_
I trust I need not offer this audience, gathered ... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Americans have never lacked interest in English history; for however
broad the stream of our national life, how could we ignore its chief
source?
But is there in England an equal interest in the history of America,
whose origin and development constitute one of the most dramatic and
significant dramas ever played upon... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Moreover, these hardy pioneers were the privileged heirs of the great
political traditions of England. While the Constitution of the United
States was very much more than an adaptation of the British
Constitution, yet its underlying spirit was that of the English speaking
race and the Common Law. Behind the framers of... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Then, as now, a world war had ended. Then, as now, half the world was
prostrated by the wounds of fratricidal strife. As Washington said: "The
whole world was in an uproar," and he added that the task "was to steer
safely between Scylla and Charybdis." The problem, then as now, was not
only to make "the world safe for... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
One of England's greatest Prime Ministers, William Pitt, shortly after
the adoption of the Constitution, prophetically said that it would be
the admiration of the future ages and the pattern for future
constitution building. Time has verified his prediction, for
constitution making has been, since the American Constit... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
"Yes, for that law was not from Zeus, nor did Justice, dweller with
the gods below, establish it among men; nor deemed I that thy
decree--mere mortal that thou art--could override those unwritten
and unfailing mandates, which are not of to-day or yesterday, but
ever live and no one knows their birt... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
This spirit of constitutionalism in America, which culminated in the
Constitution of the United States, had its institutional origin in the
spacious days of Queen Elizabeth. That wonderful age, which gave to the
world not only Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson, but also Drake,
Frobisher and Raleigh, was the Anglo-Saxon ... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Bacon became a member of the council for the Virginia Company in 1609.
His deep interest in it is attested in the dedication to him by William
Strachey in 1618 of the latter's _Historie of Travaile into Virginia
Brittania_.
In his speech in the House of Commons on January 30, 1621, Bacon saw a
vision of the future and... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Sandys suffered for his convictions, for the party of reaction convinced
King James that Virginia was a nest of sedition, and the arbitrary
ruler, in the reorganization of the London company, gave a pointed
admonition by saying: "Choose the devil, if you will, but not Sir Edwin
Sandys." In 1621 he was committed to the... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
All this developed in the colonists a powerful sense of constitutional
morality, and its pertinency to my present theme lies in the fact that
when each of the thirteen colonies became, at the conclusion of the War
of Independence, a separate and independent nation, they were more
concerned, in establishing a central g... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Obviously, a working government could not easily be constituted between
peoples of different religions, races, and economic interests, who, for
the most part, never met each other face to face and with whom frequent
communication was impossible.
The differences between the colonies and the mother-country with respect
... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
"As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has
proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is
the most wonderful work ever struck off, at a given time by the
brain and purpose of man."
This assumes that the Constitution sprang, like Minerva, armed
_cap-à-pie,_ f... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Had this _de facto_ government assumed the plenary powers which
provisional governments must, under similar circumstances, necessarily
assume, it would have been better for the cause of the colonists. For
want of an efficient central government, the civil administration of the
infant nation was marked by a weakness an... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The founders of the Republic were not fools, and while they did not, as
Gladstone seems to intimate, have the inspired wisdom to develop a
wonderful Constitution by sheer intuition unaided by experience, they
did have the ability to make of their very errors the stepping-stones to
a higher destiny.
By the Articles of ... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
"What a constancy, what a magnanimity, what a surprising
persistence against fortune!... Washington, the chief of a nation
in arms, doing battle with distracted parties; calm in the midst of
conspiracy; serene against the open foe before him and the darker
enemies at his back; Washington, inspiring... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The impotence of the new government, which was still sitting in
Philadelphia, can be measured by the fact that on June 9, 1783, word
came that eighty soldiers were on their way to Philadelphia to demand
relief. They stacked their arms in front of the State House, where the
Congress was then sitting, and refused to dis... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Chaos had come again. It filled Washington's heart with disgust and
despair. After surrendering his commission to the pitiful remnant of the
government he had retired to Mount Vernon, and for a time declined to
act further as the leader of his people. Thus, in October, 1785, he
wrote James Warren, of Massachusetts:
... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
It was, however, the darkest hour before the dawn, and again it was
Washington who became his country's saviour. In 1785, some commissioners
from the States of Virginia and Maryland visited Mount Vernon to pay
their respects to the well-loved commander. After conferring with him
upon the chaos of the times, they decid... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Anticipating the masterly ability with which a seemingly impotent and
dying nation plucked from the nettle of danger the flower of safety, let
me conclude this first address by quoting the words of de Tocqueville,
in his remarkable work _Democracy in America_, where he says:
"The Federal Government, condemned to i... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The time was May 25, 1787; the place, the State House in Philadelphia, a
little town of not more than 20,000 people, and, at that time, as
remote, measured by the facilities of communication, to the centres of
civilization as is now Vladivostok.
The _dramatis personae_ in this drama, though few in numbers, were,
howev... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Above all they were a group of gentlemen of substance and honour, who
could debate for four months during the depressing weather of a hot
summer without losing their tempers, except momentarily--and this
despite vital differences--and who showed that genius for toleration and
reconciliation of conflicting views inspir... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The suggestion was a radical one, for the States, with few exceptions,
were chiefly insistent upon the preservation of their sovereignty, and
while they were willing to amend the Articles of Confederation by giving
fuller authority to the central government, such as it was, the
suggestion of subordinating the States t... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The extreme care which was taken to preserve this secrecy inviolate, and
its purpose, were indicated in an incident handed down by tradition.
One of the members dropped a copy of a proposition then before the
convention for consideration, and it was found by another of the
delegates and handed to General Washington. A... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The members of the convention kept its secrets inviolate for many years.
With few exceptions, the great secrets of the convention died with them.
Only one, James Madison, left a comprehensive statement of the more
formal proceedings. With this notable exception, only a few anecdotes,
handed down by tradition, escaped ... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Without this extraordinary provision for secrecy, which is so opposed to
modern democratic conventions, and which so little resembles the famous
point as to "open covenants openly arrived at," the convention could not
have accomplished its great work, for these wise men realized that a
statesman cannot act wisely unde... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The rules of order and the nature of the proceedings thus determined,
the convention opened by an address by Mr. Randolph of Virginia, in
which he submitted, in the form of fifteen points--nearly the number of
the fatal fourteen--the outlines for a new government. He himself in his
opening speech summarized the propos... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Having received the two plans, the convention then went, on May 30,
into a committee of the whole to consider the fifteen propositions in
the Virginia plan _seriatim_. They wisely concluded to determine
abstract ideas first and concrete forms later. Apparently for the time
being little attention was paid to Pinckney's... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
While this was some advance toward a truly national government, it yet
left the national executive dependent upon the constituent States, for
if they failed to respond to the call above stated the national
government had no direct power over their citizens.
The New Jersey plan precipitated a crisis, and thereafter, an... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Hamilton's plan was never taken seriously and, so far as the records
show, was never afterwards considered. His admirers have given great
praise to his work in the federal convention. His real contribution lay
in the fact that when the Constitution was finally drafted and offered
to the people, while he regarded it as... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
He referred to the demand of the larger States that representation
should be proportioned to the population. To this Bedford, of Delaware,
as heatedly replied;
"We have been told with a dictatorial air that this is the last
moment for a fair trial in favour of good government. It will be the
last, indeed, ... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Some days previous, namely, June 28, when the debates were becoming so
bitter that it seemed unlikely that the convention could continue,
Doctor Franklin, erroneously supposed by many to be an atheist, made
the following solemn and beautiful appeal to their better natures. He
said:
"The small progress we have made... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
"I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the
assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be
held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business,
and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to
officiate in that service."
It may... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Fortunately, political alignments have rarely been between the greater
and the smaller States exclusively. Their equality in the Senate was a
big price to pay for the Union, but, as the event has shown, not too
great.
The convention next turned its attention to the Executive and the manner
of its selection, and upon t... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
When the committee on detail had made its report on August 6, the
convention proceeded for over a month to debate it with the most minute
care. Every day for five weeks, for five hours each day, the members
studied and debated with meticulous care every sentence of the proposed
Constitution. Time does not suffice even... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
"After the lapse of six thousand years since the creation of the
world, America now presents the first instance of a people assembled
to say deliberately and calmly and to decide leisurely and peaceably
on the form of government by which they will bind themselves and
their posterity."
In the absenc... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
It may be interesting at this point to give the result of their labours
as measured in words, and if the framers of the Constitution deserve the
plaudits of posterity in no other respect they do in the remarkable
self-restraint which those results revealed.
The convention had been in session for 81 continuous days. Pr... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
_O, fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro.
Dulce digne mero, non sine floribus_.
If I be asked why, if this be true, it has required many lengthy
opinions of the Supreme Court in the 256 volumes of its Reports to
interpret its meaning, the answer is that, as with the simple sayings of
the great Galilean, whose words h... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
"In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution with all
its faults, if they are such; because I think a general government
necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be
a blessing to the people, if well administered, and I believe
further that this is likely to be we... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Truly this spirit of Doctor Franklin could be profitably invoked in this
day and generation, when nations are so intolerant of the ideas of other
nations.
As the members, moved by Franklin's humorous and yet moving appeal, came
forward to subscribe their names, Franklin drew the attention of some of
the members to the... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
It could not have been ratified had there not been an assurance that
there would be immediate amendments to provide a Bill of Rights to
safeguard the individual. Thus came into existence the first ten
amendments to the Constitution, with their perpetual guaranty of the
fundamental rights of religion, freedom of speech... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
While it is true that the _text_ of the instrument has suffered almost
as little change as the Nicene Creed, yet it would be manifest error to
suggest that in its development by practical application the
Constitution has not undergone great changes.
The first and greatest of all its expounders, Chief Justice Marshall,... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
While in its practical adaptation to this complex age the men who framed
it, if they could "revisit the glimpses of the moon," would as little
recognize their own handiwork as their own nation, yet they would still
be able to find in successful operation the essential principles which
they embodied in the document mor... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
While the Constitution apparently only deals with the practical and
essential details of government, yet underlying these simply but
wonderfully phrased delegations of power is a broad and accurate
political philosophy, which goes far to state the "law and the
prophets" of free government.
These essential principles o... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Measured by present-day conventions of democracy, the Constitution is an
undemocratic document. The framers believed in representative
government, to which they gave the name "Republicanism" as the
antithesis to "democracy." The members of the Senate were to be selected
by State legislatures, and the President himself... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Colonel Mason, of Virginia, who was also of the Jeffersonian school of
political philosophy, said:
"Notwithstanding the oppression and injustice experienced among us
from democracy, the genius of the people is in favour of it, and the
genius of the people must be consulted."
In this they were true prophets... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
For this change in attitude there has been much justification, for in my
country, as elsewhere, the people do not always select their best men as
representatives, and, with the imperfections of human nature, there has
been so much of ignorance and, at times, venality, that the instinct of
the people is to take the con... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
At the time of the adoption of the Constitution this division of
jurisdiction was quite feasible, for, geographically, the various States
were widely separated, and the lack of economic contact made it easy for
each government to function without serious conflict. The framers,
however, did not sufficiently reckon with... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
For the same reason, the dual system of government has been profoundly
modified by the great elemental forces of our mechanical age, so that
the scales, which try to hold in nice equipoise the Federal Government
on the one hand and the States on the other, have been greatly
disturbed. Originally, the States were the p... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
This conception of individualism, enforced in courts of law against
executives and legislatures, was wholly new and is the distinguishing
characteristic of American constitutionalism. As to such reserved
rights, guaranteed by Constitutional limitations, and largely by the
first ten amendments to the Constitution, a ma... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
"Due process of law" means that there are certain fundamental principles
of liberty, not defined or even enumerated in the Constitution, but
having their sanction in the free and enlightened conscience of just
men, and that no man can be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
except in conformity with these fundament... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
It must be added, however, that in one respect this function of the
judiciary has had an unfortunate effect in lessening rather than
developing in the people the sense of constitutional morality. In your
country the power of Parliament is omnipotent, and yet in its
legislation it voluntarily observes these great funda... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The founders of the Republic were not enamoured of power. As they viewed
human history, the worst evils of government were due to excessive
concentration of power, which like Othello's jealousy "makes the meat it
feeds on."
This system of checks and balances again illustrates that the
Constitution is the great negatio... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
This separation of the two departments, which causes so much friction,
has been emphasized by one feature of the Constitution which again marks
its distrust of democracy, namely the fixed tenure of office. The
Constitution did not intend that public officials should rise or fall
with the fleeting caprices of a constit... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The framers were unwilling to lodge any such power in the Executive,
however great his powers in other respects. This was primarily due to
the conception of the States that then prevailed. While they had created
a central government for certain specified purposes, they yet regarded
themselves as sovereign nations, and... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
I suppose that since that conference no part of our constitutional
system has caused more adverse comment in Europe than this system. It
often handicaps the United States from taking a speedy and effectual
part in international negotiations, although if the President and the
Senate be in harmony and collaborate in thi... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
While this may lead, as it has in recent years, to temporary and
regrettable embarrassments, yet in the long run, it is not only better
for the United States, but it is even to the best interests of other
nations, for in this way they are safeguarded against the possible
action of an Executive with whom racial instinc... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
I have thus summarized briefly and most inadequately some of the
essential principles of the Constitution. I have only been able to
suggest very impressionistically what they are and the lessons to be
drawn from them. If I were able to deliver a dozen addresses on the
subject in this historic Hall and with this indulg... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The Constitution is something more than a written formula of
government--it is a great spirit. It is a high and noble assertion,
and, indeed, vindication, of the morality of government. It "renders
unto Caesar [the political state] the things that are Caesar's," but in
safeguarding the fundamental moral rights of the ... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
_IV. The Revolt Against Authority_
"Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the
law, happy is he."
PROVERBS xxix. 18.
One of the most quoted--and also mis-quoted--proverbs of the wise
Solomon says, as translated in the authorized version: "Where there is
no vision, the people perish." What S... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
We are apt to see the past in a golden haze, which obscures our vision.
Thus, we think of William Penn's "holy experiment" on the banks of the
Delaware as the realization of Sir Thomas More's dream of Utopia; and
yet Pennsylvania was somewhat intemperately called in 1698 "the greatest
refuge for pirates and rogues in ... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The streets of our cities, once reasonably secure from crimes of
violence, have now become the field of operations for the foot-pad and
highwayman. The days of Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard have returned,
with this serious difference--that the Turpins and Sheppards of our day
are not dependent upon the horse, but have... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
_In limine_, let us note the significant fact that this spirit of
revolt against authority is not confined to the political state, and
therefore its causes lie beyond that sphere of human action.
Human life is governed by all manner of man-made laws--laws of art, of
social intercourse, of literature, music, business--... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
In the greater sphere of social life, we find the same revolt against
the institutions which have the sanction of the past. Social laws, which
mark the decent restraints of print, speech and dress, have in recent
decades been increasingly disregarded. The very foundations of the great
and primitive institutions of man... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
The accuracy of this indictment will commend itself to men who like
myself are not of Pope Benedict's communion.
I trust that I have already shown that the challenge to authority is
universal and is not confined to that of the political state. Even in
the narrower confine of the latter, the fires of revolution are eit... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
[Footnote 5: I am here speaking of the conditions of 1920. I appreciate
the great improvement, which seems to me to justify the Lincoln-like
patience of Lloyd George.]
Nor were they altogether unsuccessful; for, when the armies of Lenin and
Trotsky were at the gates of Warsaw, in the summer of 1920, the attempts
of th... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
"O good old man! how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world.
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!"
The _moral_ of our industrial civilization has been shattered. Work for
work's sake, as the most glorious privilege of human faculties, has
gone, both as an ideal and as a potent spiri... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
In Germany, the progressive revolt of labour against work is thus
measured by competent authority: There were lost in strikes in 1917,
900,000 working days; in 1918, 4,900,000, and, in 1919, 46,600,000.
Even in our own favoured land, the same phenomena are observable. In the
State of New York alone for 1920, there was... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
If my reader agrees with me in my premises then we are not likely to
disagree in the conclusion that the causes of these grave symptoms are
not ephemeral or superficial; but must have their origin in some
deep-seated and world-wide change in human society. If there is to be a
remedy, we must first diagnose this malady... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
Proceeding to deeper and less recognized causes, some would attribute
this spirit of lawlessness to the rampant individualism, which began in
the eighteenth century, and which has steadily and naturally grown with
the advance of democratic institutions. Undoubtedly, the excessive
emphasis upon the rights of man, which... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 | |
With Watt's utilization of steam vapour as a motive power, man suddenly
passed into a new and portentous chapter of his varied history.
Thenceforth, he was to multiply his powers a thousandfold by the
utilization of the invisible powers of Nature--such as vapour and
electricity. This prodigious change in his powers, a... | The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution | Beck, James M. (James Montgomery) | 1861 | 1936 | ['en'] | 64 | {'United States. Constitution', 'Constitutional law -- United States'} | PG10065 |
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