Stepin Fetchit made the abuse of our constitution, the miscarriage of justice, the legalization of inequality, and the back of the bus only that much easier to live with.
In two cases in particular — one high-profile, the other largely overlooked — the justices divided into roughly two blocs, representing the "inward" and "outward" looking conceptions of the Constitution, with Justice Anthony Kennedy voting with liberals in one case and conservatives in the other.
For strict interpreters of the United States Constitution like Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, let's just say that if such hardships were good enough for the Founding Fathers, they're good enough for you, too!
It took a devastating civil war, whose sesquicentennial we are now observing, to revise the Constitution in the direction of justice.
An entrenched, rights-based, and justiciable (that is, liable to trial in a court of justice) constitution is said to ensure stable and accountable government, obliging legislatures and executives to operate according to the established rules and procedures.
Mrs Arroyo gave warning on March 11th of "insidious machinations to take the struggle out of the courtroom" and to "try to evolve it into a conspiracy to foment public disorder and undermine the people's allegiance to the constitution and the system of justice".
This White House will be remembered not just for the grandstanding, the brazen public falsehoods, the fear-mongering, the trampling of the Constitution, the cynical politicization of justice, the parsing of human rights, the blind quest for untrammeled power, but most vividly for the things its occupants thought and did that they never intended anyone to know about.
For example, Aristotle's account of the best constitution assumes his theory of justice, a moral standard which cannot be met by the actual political systems (democracies and oligarchies) of his own day.
On a daily basis tens of thousands, perhaps even millions of Americans, have tried through creative means to make their leaders abide by the Constitution and the tenets of justice and morality upon which this nation was formed.
Invoking the views of two of the framers of the Constitution, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist called on Congress today to increase the salaries of federal judges.
The size of government is secondary to its purpose according to the preamble of our Constitution to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity".
