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Show 117 h 1$ In America tha.f the theory of Guol and plural citlzenship has been made practical. it is in America thGt we cem unl te for some purposes and be divided for others. It is in America that liberty is maintained by promotirtg voluntary eooperction instead of forced unIty. It is in America thot national and state sovereignty Qt. permitted to exist side by side, not without onfllets adjusted DY peoeefu1 means. It is In AmericG that the individual ft. the right to heve and to hold, to go and to come, to live life in Q greater sense than it has ever been I ived before. After 150 years of experience, if the world would but catch America's spirh, no one need feel that the efforts being mG. by our leaden today are in vain. Slowly but surely man is being made conscious of the foct thot I no matter what nctlon he belongs to, thot nation in turn is but on. of Q community of notions. Thot foct real bed, that fact matntairted, surely than the stGndard for ncltions eon be as ,..dily S$t up as the standards for Individuals ore set up within the community of the nGtion. Man lives in law and is not free from the restraints of his neighbors. A na,tion too lives in law and should not be free from restraint of its neighbors. If we foil to bring .,ovt 0 better world through the organization ef the nations we will foU be cause we did not reat Ixe the faet that the earth is a unit and the nations of the earth ore but individual entities within that unit and must adhere to the prevailing wl1l of the community of nations. If we but do this, we shaU hove a sonetien for intemotioMI law 0$ binding and at g.-eot as the fund.mental sanction which we have In our own Constitution. we the people In or.r to do certcdn thin,gs, Wnen we say do these things there Is no Cfuestioning in our Constitution of right of the people to SO)' we the people. What stote ques tions that right today among our 48: Can we not expand the Idee as America has expanded from 13 small States to 48 mighty we the people of the world in ord$r to form, In ones Gnd soy order to do, in erder to oct, establish the fQUowl·ng. Proetically every pitfall thot is pointed out by those with out faith In our Ameriean Con$titution 150 years ago. If those theories which were dreamed of by the fathers, if that Consti tution which we so glibly call inspired obtains the element of truth, why should anyone critic ize me when I soy that the American Revolution is stili on, that it has not aecompll$hed its ultimate objective, and that its full meaning In the earth will not be understood ootn the world unity is made manifest, - -* - ... |
