
“"[C]onstitutional silence"... pervades all of constitutional law.”
Soundings and Silences (2016)
1860s, Cooper Union speech (1860)
“"[C]onstitutional silence"... pervades all of constitutional law.”
Soundings and Silences (2016)
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
“Most of the Constitution's Framers knew, and many said, that slavery was wrong.”
Source: 2000s, Vindicating the Founders (2001), p. 14
“Constitutional rights should not be frittered away by arguments so technical and unsubstantial.”
Milwaukee Social Democratic Publishing Co. v. Burleson, 255 U.S. 407, 431 (1921).
Extra-judicial writings
Remember, the supremacy clause in Article VI of the Constitution says that this Constitution, and the laws and treaties made in pursuance thereof, are the supreme law of land—anything in any law or a constitution of any state to the contrary not withstanding.
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Letter to August Belmont (May 30, 1868), in J. W. Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, (1874). p. 585.
“An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.”
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
Dissenting, Poulos v. New Hampshire, 345 U.S. 395 (1953)
Judicial opinions