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A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

Sam Ervin

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Sam Ervin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1896
Born: September 27
Died: 1985
Died: April 23
American Politician
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Morganton
North Carolina
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