Show J The Court Which Has Stood as the Guardian of Our Form of Government By CALVIN COOLIDGE Vice President United States States- in ail in For the purpose of or protecting the people and so solemnly their dearly bought rights eo so O 4 dc declared the thc third article of the Constitution bJ es established one Supreme me court and vested it with all under the Coni Con Con- judicial pow power r over fer all cases arising g court which has stood as the i It is that guardian and protector of our form fonn ann of government nt the guaranty of the perpetuity of the Constitution ution r and abo above e all u the great champion of th tha freedom I and the liberty of the pe people No other kno known 4 tribunal has hM ever been devised in which the people could put their faith and to which the they could their choicest treasure with a like assurance that thera ther it would be secure e and nd safe There is no o power no influence great enough t to sway J its ith judgments 1 One of the proposals for enlarging the present field of legislation has baS been to give the congress authority t to make valid a proposed law which th tho Supreme court h has haa declared was was' outside the authority granted by bythe bythe bythe the people by the simple d device vi e of re- re enacting re-enacting it t. t Such a pr provision ir would ma make e the finally supreme In he the lit last resort its pow powers rs practically would d be unlimited This would be to do away w with th the great main principle of our writ writ- ten Constitution which regards the people as as' as sovereign and the government government government govern govern- ment as as' as their heir agent and would tend tand to make the legislative body sovereign sovereign sov sov- an and th the people le its subjects It It would to to an an extent s substitute for fort forthe t the e will of the people definitely al and d pc per permanently 1 exp expressed ss 4 in their written Constitution on the changing and unc uncertain will win of jhc the congress That would radically alter our form of government and take tale from it its chief guaranty of f freedom |