| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22975 |
| QUOTATION: | The words of the Constitution ... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), U.S. associate justice of the Supreme Court. “The Supreme Court,” vol. 3, no. 1, Parliamentary Affairs (London, Winter 1949). |
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