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Show 120 traln.ing Md approach would preclude especic.tlly made sexred emd roi.d ClSCribes scre.redness or finality to to the on emph_is on the Constitution the level of flnol morality. Constitution, though end admiration for it find for the work of the fothers. t us.2 eitizens, At another time, speaking to on symbol, He nowhere he expresses his respect He has Mid thot 'We indeed fortUnGte to have the inspiratIon and guidcmee of before es our ore greGt Constitution assem.bloge of Germen-descended he sa.id that: In g<llvernmen.1 sense the AmericCIn Cons-titution stanek the mother 0' aU constitutions. That is, Americu's Constitution is the oId_t of the constitutions of the world. Yet It Is in Amerlc. that we look for the land of promi$e, and in spite of her Constitutiom age, she stands in Q. spirit youth ful because never once has she turned beck. Thus, we have the key to our notional I if. to what may become Ponee de leon's dream of the Fountain of Vouth-a nation which builds onward and upword and doGS not tum back. 3 •••• (I todcy CIS ... Categorically, he stated later thot seheme.I4 tional Perhaps his use of the words the Constitution h. nl, like of the -some you, hold with phrase reverence our "eer constitutional significance. constitu scheme,; instead If so, it illustrates his v.iew of 1 "The Constitution may have been written by Inspired men but they did not through their inspiration something that wes to be worshipped. The Constl tu-tion Is not <2 god. It is the compcmion of the American people in the aecompU,h ment of the peoples social, politicol and economic obiectives.v,loc. cit. erGote 2 CongressIonal Record, -- Vol. 88, p, 141, (77th C:"l.t Sess., February, 1942). 3 4 Ibid., Vol. 86, p. 75, (76th Congress 3d Sess., January 8, 1940). Jbid., Vol. 83, p. 1435, (75th Congress, 3d Sen., April 11, 1938). |
