I Even Accept For The Sake Of

It Is Difficult To Maintain The Illusion That We Are Interpreting A Constitution, Rather Than Inventing One.

Campaign Promises Are - By Long Democratic Tradition - The Least Binding Form Of Human Commitment.

Justice White's Conclusion Is Perhaps Correct, If One Assumes That The Task Of A Court Of Law Is To Plumb The Intent Of The Particular Congress That Enacted A Particular Provision. That Methodology Is Not Mine Nor, I Think, The One That Courts Have Traditionally Followed. It Is Our Task, As I See It, Not To Enter The Minds Of The Members Of Congress - Who Need Have Nothing In Mind In Order For Their Votes To Be Both Lawful And Effective - But Rather To Give Fair And Reasonable Meaning To The Text Of The United States Code, Adopted By Various Congresses At Various Times.

But I Also Believe That A Lot Of Gun Owners Would Agree That Ak-47s Belong In The Hands Of Soldiers, Not On The Streets Of Our Cities.

If We're Picking People To Draw Out Of Their Own Conscience And Experience A 'new' Constitution, We Should Not Look Principally For Good Lawyers. We Should Look To People Who Agree With Us. When We Are In That Mode, You Realize We Have Rendered The Constitution Useless.