Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their DEMOCRACY - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they KNOW that if the CONSTITUTION is truly to constitute the nation, it MUST TRUMP some majority preferences.
Read MoreWe are second-hand people. We have LIVED on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and ENVIRONMENT. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in US, nothing that we have DISCOVERED for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.
Read MoreThere cannot be enduring PEACE, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so SEPARATE and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, SHARING the EARTH among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.
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