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Quotes from Columbia University's Charpentier Lectures — Hugo Black

1886–1971 United States

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The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges' views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

Columbia University's Charpentier Lectures (1968)

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