Those Who Made And Endorsed Our Constitution Knew Man's Nature, And It Is To Their Ideas, Rather Than To The Temptations Of Utopia, That We Must Ask That Our Judges Adhere. - SearchQuotes

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

Robert Bork

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