Our Constitution was not intended to be used by… any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
Constitution Quotes
All the foundations before mentioned, of the federal government, are by the proposed system to be established, in the most clear, strong, positive, unequivocal expressions, of which our language is capable. Magna charta, or any other law, never contained clauses more decisive and emphatic. While the people of these states have sense, they will understand […]
There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
If the Constitution is to be construed to mean what the majority at any given period in history wish the Constitution to mean, why a written Constitution?
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.
Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?
The Fourteenth Amendment… was adopted with a view to the protection of the colored race, but has been found to be equally important in its application to the rights of all.
The Constitution was built for rough as well as smooth roads. In time of war the nation simply changes gears and takes the harder going under the same power.
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.
