Finally, a word about the special duty of our profession. It is not the pulpit nor the press, but the law which reaches and touches every fibre of the whole fabric of life, which surrounds and guards every right of the individual, which grasps the greatest and the least of human affairs, and which comprehends the whole community and every human right. We lawyers, if worthy of our profession, are in duty bound not merely to defend constitutional guaranties before the courts for individual clients, but to teach the people in season and out of season to value and respect the constitutional rights of others and to respect and cherish the institutions which we have inherited. It is our duty to preach constitutional morality to the rich and to the poor, to all trades and to all professions, to all ranks and to all classes, in the cities and on the plains. It is for us to convince the members of every class that, in the long run, disregard of the fundamental rights of others would be in conflict with their own permanent welfare and happiness, and cannot be permitted if we are to remain a free people. What higher duty, what nobler task could engage us than to teach the value and sacredness of the ancient and honest principles of justice embodied in our constitutions, immortal as the eternal truths from which they derive their origin, and to preach to all classes the virtue of political justice and self-imposed political restraints, without which there can be no true constitutional morality. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 10: Address before the Pennsylvania State Bar Association at its eighteenth annual meeting, held at Cape May, New Jersey, June 25, 1912.] [Footnote 11: 188 United States Reports, p. 375.] [Footnote 12: 98 New York Reports, p. 98.] [Footnote 13: 33 Hun's Reports, pp. 380, 382, 383.] [Footnote 14: 177 New York Reports, p. 145; 198 United States Reports, p. 45.] [Footnote 15: 169 United States Reports, p. 366.] [Footnote 16: 207 United States Reports, p. 463.] [Footnote 17: 223 United States Reports, p. 1.] [Footnote 18: 201 New York Reports, p. 271.] [Footnote 19: The Federalist, Ford's edition, pp. 520, 521, 522.] [Footnote 20: 1 Cranch's Reports, pp. 176-177.] [Footnote 21: 204 New York Reports, p. 534.] [Footnote 22: Since this address was delivered, the sixteenth amendment has been ratified. It was proposed by Congress July 16, 1909, and declared effective February 25, 1913. The seventeenth amendment was proposed by Congress May 15, 1912, and declared effective May 31, 1913. In view of this demonstration, it should certainly not be any longer urged that the Constitution of the United States is practically unamendable.] THE ELEVENTH AMENDMENT[23]