Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Supreme Court is not the impetus for constitutional change - we are.
Power's not what the Constitution was about.
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
At no time during the period intervening between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of the new government were the leaders in Federalism certain that the agrarian party, which had opposed the Constitution, might not render the instrument ineffectual by securing possession of Congress.
The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.
We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.
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