I envy my current students. For the first time in four decades, they can look forward to a Supreme Court that will once again protect those rights that are truly fundamental to our society.

The American Constitution has been called "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." It was authored by men who had surpassing confidence in the human mind--men who were convinced that people were capable of "establishing good government from reflection and choice," to the end that self-evident truths about human nature, discernible through reason, would be honored in social life.