A Frame of Government for Men of Opposite Opinions

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In construing the Constitution, we should remember that it is a frame of government for men of opposite opinions, and for the future, and therefore not hastily import into it our own views, or unexpressed limitations derived merely from the practice of the past.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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  1. Alas, that got left behind in 1973.
    And the new approach has trickled down all the way to the basement.

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