“The Constitution is not what the Court says it is. Rather it is what the people…eventually allow the Court to say it is.” A careful read of the history of great advances in American freedom reveals that high court decisions like Brown v. Board of Ed. actually relied both on the clarity of the argument and the perception that the nation was ready.
Bruce Ledewitz
Bruce Ledewitz, Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, is a recognized expert in the fields of criminal law and constitutional law and he has written widely in both specialized legal journals and national media such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. His books include Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and his latest is Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism from Indiana University Press.
