“Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.” CountryConstitution Author:Laurence Tribe
“The only way the avoid a constitution crisis, and I'm not saying we're there yet, is to reassure the public that the person leading the government is someone who has loyalties other than to himself, not loyalties to the foreign governments that helped him financially.” ConstitutionCrisisLoyalty Author:Laurence Tribe
“One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an extremely clever but stunningly reductionist argument that the whole Constitution is really designed to protect private property... Can a constitution reflecting as diverse an array of visions and aspirations as ours really be reducible to such as sadly single-minded vision as that?” BookWholeFoundVisionExampleProtectArgumentConstitutionPropertyExtraordinaryLibertarianDecadesCleverAspirationEnterpriseDiverseReflectingPrivate Property Author:Laurence Tribe