Show constitution IN DANGER bj by JAMES it BECK form U S S solicitor heitor unconstitutional legislation Is i lapping gapping the government and unless ante the Ameri american carl public rebuilds a conscious neM to constitutional authora authority ty the constitution will cease to function if our constitution continue to disintegrate in its essential principles as much as during the last 25 years it maj not survive beyond the experience of the children who are now dow alven the union because of its size and greats greata si sm will one day be disrupted unless the spirit of the constitution is and preserved in the tile hearts of the le therefore I 1 plead for an awakened conscience tor for morality on the part of our legislators and the people they should manly marily determine these grave issues of constitutionality tor for themselves unless they do so they are in grave danger of losing the benefits ut of the wisest instrument of statecraft that the wit of man hai yet deved unless the people have a militant political conscience the constitution ij doomed I 1 question the present federal income tax as a change from th the constitutional clause assuring citizens that all direct taxes wo ild id be divided among the lilt states in the same prop prop tion as they exercise political power in th the house of representatives this ordinal constitutional clause was inserted to prevent undue burden widen upon the more prosperous states yet while a few great states like new york pennsylvania and illinois pay more income bues akin all the other states they play a relatively small part in deciding how the funds thus meed shall be appropriated |