Some Motes in America´s Eye (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Some Motes in America´s Eye It may be that the author, a retired Boston teacher, gets the temerity to criticize the Constitution from the fact that, in the old days of the Dedham, Mass., High School, the civil government taught there consisted in committing the Constitution to memory, amendments and all. While some are proposing much more radical changes than are to be found suggested here, we all wish to attain the same object, namely, to remove the barnacles from the Ship of State. The President, whom we have come to feel is our most direct representative, needs to be relieved of certain restraints; Congress needs to be restrained from extravagance, and unwisdom, and to be composed of a much higher class of men than of late years; and the courts need to be made instrumentalities of justice and equity, instead of so much precedent, technicality and injunction, and declaring laws to be unconstitutional. As one author says, "You attribute too much penetration to our judiciary. You imagine that official decoration increases human sagacity and sharpens the perception. It is quite the other way. Badges of office have the effect of inflating egotism to such a degree that judgment is corrupted." The problem of making the courts places where nothing but even-handed justice is dispensed, needs to be taken up with extreme seriousness, and the too long-suffering patience of the American people with things they know to be wrong, needs to give way to a determination to have things right. We are living in an interesting time. The other nations of the world seem to have set America up on a pedestal of appreciation, for our part in the Great War, and it is a proud moment in the life of our country, which has so few things in its history to be ashamed of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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