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But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.