Milford chronicle., 1936-10-30


te sovereign and the Supreme Court
the repository Of their rights an
le the cOnservator of their power. Rad
ical communism in its determine
tiOn to found a class dictatorshi
= would emasculate the vital function
= Of the Supreme Court, destroy tn
! = sovereignty of the people and Civ
, to irresponsible representatives
Congress and to an usurping execu
tive unlimited and ultimate power.
This challenge Of communism anC
peril Of radicalism make clear anC
imperative the duty Of all citizeni
: who believe in the supremacy anG
rule of the people and not in the
power Of the President or Of Con-
gress to do as either may please
to end with their votes the menace
Of cOmmunistic radicalism and
again make secure that highest con-
sUmatiOn of mans efforts, indiYid-
ual freedom and equality before and
under the law and thus restore that
form of government under our con-
stitutiOn which conserves property,
pIotects life and guarantee the lib
critics of man.
] Enjoyment dulls the edge of graf
itude and long continued use dims
the memory of the struggles, the
sacrifices and the sufferings by and
through which was attained that
stupendOus achievement of our IA
Tiers, the founding of a representa-
tive republic under the limitations
and restraints, under the checks and
balances of a written constitution.
Forget the ancient civilization
where the individual existed for the
state and throw your minds alone
to the growth of the ideal Of liberty
under law among our own people. /
Picture to yourselves the tyranny /
of a mOnarch's individual WILL /
which for centuries bowed the head /
in submission and Tiveted to the
soil the bodies of a struggling hui
manity. Then see pass before you
the Barons on the meadows of
RCnymede before King John and
now contemplate these great COM
paets Of human liberties, the sour
ces Of English and American con-
stitutional law, the Great Charter,
the Bill OF Rights. the Act Of Settle
ment, the Petition Of Right and the
Habeas Corpus Act.
These cOmpacts by brave and
courageous men. with the hand of
revolution and at the price of war.
were wrung from unwilling kings or ;
granted by reluctant Parliaments.
After thousands of years Of struggle.
these compacts are mans rewards
and his now most priceless herit-
ages, for they contain the fOunda-
ton stones Of his liberties.
Freedom of speech, of religious
" worship, equality before the law.
due process of law, trial by a jury !
and the guarantees against attaind-
Or, ex post facto law, impairment of
contract, unusual search, arbitrary 4,
arrests, infamous punishment, self =
and the right to be u
confronted in open court by the ac- h
user, were rights which our fore n
,eaTs made the basis of their Decla- n
alton of independence against the L
rbitrary acts of a stubborn king. Il
CORVALLIS had but surrendered n
It Yorktown when commissioners
rom five states and among them j
Delaware. met at Annapolis to con- Ia
ieer the plan of government for "a
he new nation. which a revolution A
ad won. This conference was fol-
owed by the convention at Phila- SC
elphia which formulated our con- u
:.
Now what is this constitution? Is ~
anything more than the supreme ~
lw of the nation written by the -
i'll of the people, for the purpose -
I. establishing a form Of govern 20
ent, and the defining and limiting ~, ~
fundamental powers as between Se
nd among the national government.
le several states and the people? DIR
! final analysis, it is but a written vi
Etrument which contains self-im- MI
lsed limitations on arbitrary pow
Of the national government, of the so
veral states and on the people, DR.
These limitations are au
ipOsed on the Federal Govern g.
ent to prevent the extinction Of col
e states and to preserve the right tul
the states to control local and mt
mestic pOlity. They are imposed let
the states that the national gov PR
nment may be supreme in all for ing
IN relations and in all domestic OF
ltters that concern all the people ma
all the states. They are imposed
the people themselves by pro- ~. NJ
,iting their President and repre-
natives in Congress from im- ne,
lging on their defined liberties. ~.
rhe benius and wisdom of that I'm
lvention is best demonstrated by anr
manner in which the opposing "a,
ces Of Capitalization and decen- /
lization were balanced and equal shil
d. The result is that ours is a the
Il government an "indissOluble
on Of indestructible states" al
low the constitution Of itself is
the source of a citizens right, :.
Is 1t the cause Of his liberty. or
bis political equality or freedom. Sul
Is rather the consequence Of a 'us' y,
pies liberty and freedom and is ~
creature Of their sovereign pow ~ ~.
The people asserted their indi- ~
lal rights aRd conserved their IN /
tical freedom by and through AZ
limitations which are imposed SIM
he people on the powers which Mrs
I delegated to their mere agents, III
Executive. the Congress and the four
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