Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-08
The Constitution of the United States
What il Means 70 Americans in These Days Of Unrest

vengeance. would be>the end OF Judi
cial Investigation: where the rights
OF men to live and to enjoy the fruits
Of their labor would be recognized.
This was the dream Of the fathers of
the Republic as they, laid the foun-
datton' in the long ago..
But this dream never would have
been realized, had It. not been for the
recognition of that great constitution
al principle announced by Marshall.
that in this nation the law is SUI
IRENE! not supreme alone with the
citizen, but supreme with the nation,
and the states that compose the ma
ton; not supreme with the humble
toiler. but supreme with the richest
and the strongest; not supreme ir
theory, but supreme in truth and in
fact. 80
n this great principle OF the SUI
premacy OF h law finds its origin in
tfat immortal documentEThe Con-
s4ttution Of the United States. Few
there are in these modern days who
fully appreciate the wonderful bless
tngs of a written constitution which
gives recognition to the fundamental
natural rights of a and which
provides guarantees against the in
~vasion. of these rights.
Gladstone. the eminent statesman,
said: y ~
The American Constitution is the
most wonderful work " struck off
at a given time by the brain and pur-
pose Of. man."
An eminent lawyer has said-"It
has been the priceless. adjunct OF free
government: the mighty shield Of the
rights and liberties of the citizen. 1t
has been many times invoked to- save
him from illegal punishment, and
save his property from the, greed Of
interruptions enemies. and to save his
political rights from the unbrldled H.
cense Of victorious political oppon-
ents controlling legislative bodies;
nor does it sleep except as a sword
dedicated to a righteous cause, sleeps
In its scabbard." '
Horace Binney says ''"
What were the States before the
Union? The hope Of their enemies,
the fear of their friends, and arrest
ed only by the constitution from be-
i coming the shame of the world
Sir Henry Maine remarks ,.o.
"It isn't at all easy to bring home
to the e Of the present day, how
low the credit of the Republic had
sunk before, the establishment of the
United States. - The Federal Con-
stitution has survived the mockery of
itself In France and in Spanish Amer
lea. It's success has been so great
and striking, that men have almost
forgotten. that IL the whole, or the
known experiments of mankind in
governments be looked at together,
there has been no form of govern
ment SO successful as the republi-
can"
No King May Enter.
A prominent North Carolina jurist
tells us that the constitution permits:
mo military commission in time OF
peace to put its hand upon the citiH
zen;, no. state or the general govern
ment., to deprive n of his privileges
or immunities, but by the law OF the
land, how q rights Of property are
held as sacred under this constitu-
ton, as was the humble cottage of
the English peasant, in regard to
which the elder Pitt once said, the
poorest, man I'D his cottage may bid
defiance to all the force Of the crown:
It may be fraiEits root may shake
the wind may blow through it, the
storm may enter. the rain may enter,
but the King of England cannot en-
ter; all his force dare not cross the
threshold Of this ruined tenement"
Justice Mitchell of PENNSYLVANIA
says: .. -
"a century and a decade have
passed since the Constitution Of the
United States ,was adopted. Dynasties
have arisen and fallen. boundaries
have extended and shrunken tiff con-
tinents seem almost the playthine of
imagination and war; nationalities
have been asserted and subdued;