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— George Will"Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences."
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In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.
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