I am concerned to preserve the system of government ordained by the Constitution. The time is here now for American citizens who believe in the declarations of the Bill of Rights. who desire to preserve the Federal system of checks and balances between three coordinated branches of Government. and who are devoted to a more perfect union of the several States. without depriving them of their independent sovereignty over local affairs and their relative dependence on the Federal Government. for the insurance of a republican form of government in every State and a uniform interpretation and application of national laws to them. The time is here now to protect and preserve the Constitution for Americans who would preserve the capitalistic system from subtle transformation into collectivism and maintain a social economy in which individual opportunity. incentive. and responsibility will excite the highest endeavor and the greatest service of men. for all who would preserve us from that backwash of war and Asiatic and European propaganda which has for its objective the destruction of private ownership. the erection of public ownership. and the sinking of individualism to a common level. for all who would maintain the system of government ordained by the Constitution. as expressed in the opinion of the Supreme Court to which I have just referred. Believing that the Constitution is an organic force which has always bowed to the wind of emergencyand is now bent appallinglyand which has always hitherto sprung back again erect to the sun of creative and constructive periods of our history. I object to this proposed Gold Reserve Act of 1934 which tends to prostrate completely such a necessary provision of it as the exclusive duty of Congress to legislate those great rules. those primary policies by which our nationality itself as well as individual rights are preserved.