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"Earlier today, we
heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United
States: "We, the people." It's a very eloquent beginning."
"But when that document
was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not
included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that
George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake.
But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court
decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'"
"Today I am an
inquisitor. An hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate
the solemnness that I feel right now. My faith in the Constitution is
whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and
be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction,
of the Constitution." |