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Show 129 pUfPO$e of Government itself; the$$ it is not for any two clear and I" the concepti ere complete. as reveoled by the Constitution. Government Is Gfte firmly ••ped ond unaemood, Law and the Constitution solving of hi. p,robtemt, personality and ICllv-at;.", Flnelly, already been the finding himself 8$ peinted out. This idea w. by ,etting $0(';1.1 in eulogy .f is the and the and desires, citlzen.f When • in man only, winning his ar" ,nation. euphonoul .rd co_mpanioft. first presented by Thomas In Coner"$S Senator BorGh, but it is worth relterQtins forth Ms lifte of reasoning. The objectives .e to serve man Q 19 peopl,•• then his positi." is mode in reed i:zift9 his nee<fs and key to his interpretation in the remcarks mcde in the and smGl1 private group; it is for the not for following statement lndle •• .rel.iftg to it of the Constitution; the his Constitution 19 nWhen our Constitvtlon was established, the fundamenh,l theory which :10)' behind the varIous compromises which:: became our Constitution w_ the theory that Governm,ent ahould not be an .U-embrcclna thing, but merely Q guarantee of cert'ain thi. Those certain things we moy discover by reoain.g the purpo$81 fer which the ColUtitutioA WGS broulht into beins as expressed in its preamble. One of these purpG'. WQ$ to secure the blessings of liberty. It must be ossufl'Ked th.at# as the ee,.tiMioft WQS Gn$ Qf deleget.d ond limited powers, the blessing$ of I iberty were to be mGde seeur. by restrClining Govern rrent from inter'erring too mvc.h with the ordinary offaJts of I i Ie. The eonstitutiona,1 government, therefer., did not $et out .U the rights of man nor did it aim to inter fere with many.f his Qct;vities Mon's ,purIU!t of happiness w. 1'0 be in Qecor ... G1anc:e with his own desires. And in that pursuit of happine$5 he was to be os economically free and unhampered .. was consistent with other men's rights and Uberties. Thus the American Government oceepted (I th_ry that governments were instituted for the good. of man, that the important thing should be the people and not the Government, and throughout o\lr hi$tory we hov'. glibly paro phrased Qn expretsicm from the Scriptures to SQy that Government was made for In theory out Government does .not exi$t man and not mean for the Government to sustain if"lf; it exists to $U$tain the people. The end of Government, therefore, i$ ;mt Government itself, but it is the people.l1 Ibid. (74th Congress, 2d Sass., february lS, 1936), p. 2128. ••••• - |
