"The writing of this book was impelled (or compelled) by the very manifest indifference
of the people of the United States to the constitutional doctrines of their country. This had
been developing so rapidly that all ideas of constitutionalism seemed to have passed out
of the American mind. That is, indefensible proposals and practices against the plainest
limitations on power set in the Constitution provoked no objections even from the Bar.
For two decades no great debate on a constitutional subject had been heard in either
House of Congress.
The National Education Association, theoretically representing the teachers of the
country, had for years been passing resolutions favoring whatever was before the public
of un-American import, especially for getting the imperial Government at Washington,
through "Federal aid," to take over the shaping in school of American ideas. Under the
cloak of "academic freedom" men in the universities belittled those who wrote the
Constitution and pronounced their work faulty and outmoded.
The schools, while neglecting to give thorough courses in our history, and especially in
constitutional history or the history of Liberty, admitted objectionable textbooks and
periodicals....
,,, As the constitutional system of the United States was the first that man through all the
centuries was able to formulate for the one purpose of controlling those in power, the
American should know it as he knows the alphabet. Its study has been recommended to
him by its adoption in Canada, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, and in other countries more
or less fully. It is "the last hope of the world," Daniel Webster warned us."
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