If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life tenure and they should be made directly responsible to the electorate.
Constitution Quotes
Constitutions are intended to preserve practical and substantial rights, not to maintain theories.
What’s the Constitution between friends?
I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once […]
Constitutional rights like others are matters of degree.
The great generalities of the Constitution have a content and significance that vary from age to age.
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Constitutional law like other mortal contrivances has to take some chances.
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
