. World's Columbian Catholic Congresses and educational exhibit ... embracing official proceedings of all the Chicago Catholic Congresses of 1893 .... and government implies the restrain-ing influence of law. These ideas are not only obvious but they are very American. We find themincorporated in the fundamental charters of our liberties. In the Declaration of Independence we read: We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator withcertain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-ness. That
. World's Columbian Catholic Congresses and educational exhibit ... embracing official proceedings of all the Chicago Catholic Congresses of 1893 .... and government implies the restrain-ing influence of law. These ideas are not only obvious but they are very American. We find themincorporated in the fundamental charters of our liberties. In the Declaration of Independence we read: We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator withcertain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-ness. That to secure these rights governments are established among men. TheConstitution of the United States declares in its preamble: We, the people of the UnitedStates, in order to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, doordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Therefore, by the highest American authority, for the security of liberty, govern-ments are instituted and constitutions ordained and established. Liberty can not existwithout the authority of government exercised under the forms of ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN. SAN FRANCISCO. ARCHBISHQP KATZER. MILWAUKEE. ARCHBISHOP SATOLLIWASHINGTON. ARCHBISHOP HENNESSY,DUBUQUE. ARCHBISHOP JANSSEN,NEW ORLEANS. WORLDS COLUMBIAN CATHOLIC CONGRESSES. 37 But in order that the citizen may possess true civil liberty it is not only necessarythat he should be subject to government but that government itself be restrainedwithin proper limits; it must be just, and its sole end must be the public good. Anyother governmental control would be despotic and tyrannical. It was to secure thiskind of government that all the efforts of our forefathers were directed. Therefore itwas that they insisted upon a government by the people themselves through their ownrepresentatives; for this reason the government agencies which they created were lim-ited in their powers by written constitutions and fundamental righ
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