"The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted……" — Felix Frankfurter
"The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life."
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Felix Frankfurter
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
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