What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible.

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  I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

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• David Souter:

  If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, i

• David Souter:

  The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language

• David Souter:

  For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied

• David Souter:

  The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between

• David Souter:

  The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process

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  The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution

• David Souter:

  History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

• David Souter:

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