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minority, their continuous ideological pressure keeps the Court moving, on balance, in their direction. That is why their ideological similars in private life, who before 1937 were the Court’s most bitter critics, now support a doctrine of judicial supremacy more extreme than has ever before been advanced in this country.

There is, however, not the slightest reason in our Constitution or our history why we must accept the Supreme Court’s word as beyond challenge. Ours is a government of diffused sovereignty, of reciprocal checks and balances. It is the right and duty of Congress, the President, the states and the voters to correct the Court when it departs from its proper role.

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minority, their continuous ideological pressure keeps the Court moving, on balance, in their direction. That is why their ideological similars in private life, who before 1937 were the Court’s most bitter critics, now support a doctrine of judicial supremacy more extreme than has ever before been advanced in this country.

There is, however, not the slightest reason in our Constitution or our history why we must accept the Supreme Court’s word as beyond challenge. Ours is a government of diffused sovereignty, of reciprocal checks and balances. It is the right and duty of Congress, the President, the states and the voters to correct the Court when it departs from its proper role.