For a century every contest with the Supreme Court has ended in evading the basic inconsistency between popular government and judicial supremacy. (Robert H. Jackson)

For a century every contest with the Supreme Court has ended in evading the basic inconsistency between popular government and judicial supremacy.

Robert H. Jackson

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