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But as hard as it may have been, appeals to the American ideal that all people are created equal and have a right to participate in self-government ultimately won out, time after time.
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― Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution
― Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution
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...this is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation...
There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning. They affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons. They are organic utterances. They speak the voice of the entire people. These, and many oth
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