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Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Hugo Black
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Hugo Black
American
Judge
Born:
Feb 27
,
1886
Died:
Sep 25
,
1971
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We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
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