“ We do not ignore a certain tendency to disregard the Constitutional limitations of Governmental power, but we think that that tendency diminishes rather than increases. We think that the temptation for any man or body of men to seek power beyond Constitutional limits is less than it ever has been, and that the chances of success in any effort to do so are distinctly fewer and feebler than in any previous stage of our National existence. ”

“ However, usurpation of so gross a character would now be rendered infinitely more difficult, not only by the republican spirit and habits of the people, but also by our federative organization dividing so large an expanse of country into a multitude of self-governing States. ”