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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
Thomas Sowell
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Thomas Sowell
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 30
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