“You may think that the Constitution is your security it is nothing but a piece of paper. You may think that the statutes are your security but they are nothing but words in a book. You may think that elaborate mechanism of government is your security but it is nothing at all, unless you have sound and uncorrupted public opinion to give life to your Constitution, to give vitality to your statutes, to make efficient your government machinery.”
-Charles Evan Hughes, Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court, 1930-1941
Contemporary Connection…
My Lecture: Order v Liberty – An Enduring Theme in U.S. History
Time Magazine calls Alien & Sedition Acts the Patriot Act of the 18th Century
