Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]

What is the quality of your intent?

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.