B. Map out a program so that you can show to all critics of America the ways in which the Constitution of the United States gives to all Americans the rights to LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. C. You can now answer fully the question, “Why is America the most free and most just Nation on the globe?” D. What did Chief Justice Marshall mean when he said, “This is a government of laws, and not of men.” E. Prepare in writing a constitution for the “Lincoln Debating Club”. A WORD TO THE THE TEACHERS AND OTHERS “The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. The Government of the United States has been emphatically termed, a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.” These words of Chief Justice Marshall in Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137, are the most significant and far reaching in their effect upon human government that were ever uttered by the lips of man. “A government of laws and not of men.” This expresses the fundamental difference between the government of this great American republic and all other systems of government devised by man before the Constitution of the United States came into being.(113) Government has been the great problem of the human race throughout all the ages since mankind first started out upon the great highway of life. The greatest problem men have ever been called upon to solve is “how they might live together in communities without cutting each others throats”.