[…] the written Constitution bequeathed by them to the country became a Holy Scripture. A man was permitted to think as he pleased about the Bible; but it was accounted blasphemy to whisper a suspicion that any clause in the American Constitution was not written by Divine inspiration. Our fathers had devoured Metis herself, and lo! panoplied Wisdom sprang from their brain. This Constitutionolatry was real in the first generation after the formation of the Federal Union.
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Yet we find even Mr. Gladstone praising our Constitution as the creation of the men in 1787; and in America there has been a kind of Constitutionolatry which has tended to obscure the historic origin of its methods and principles through the very intensity of the admiration felt for its wisdom.
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The Constitution-olatry that holds a secular document as sacred, despite its flexibility in the hands of the Justices of the Supreme Court; the popular belief that has grown up that the Supreme Court alone has the final power of interpretation over not only the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government, but also over the states in matters not only legal but often executive and political, and the fact that the Judges rule practically for life without any necessary restraint whatever from popular opinion and will—all these factors make the Supreme Court in many varied matters an almost absolute dictator of an otherwise democratic republic.
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In 1776 it was the tyranny of a despot; in 1936 it is the pressure of the dead hand upon the living present; a constitutionolatry like that of the Scribes and Pharisees for the Pentateuch, of the Talmudic rabbis for the Mosaic code.
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