The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
George WillFootball combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George WillBeing elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
George WillSome calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
George WillPopularity 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.
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