Constitutional Shield Quotes
- No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned… — Hugo Black
- Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten… — Strom Thurmond
- The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American… — Carl T. Rowan