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October 20, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under American Politics, Supreme Court 

Justice Clarence Thomas’s sums up his judicial philosophy at the Manhattan Institute last Thursday:

The framers structured the Constitution to assure that our national government be by the consent of the people. To do this, they limited its powers. The national government was to be strong enough to protect us from each other and from foreign enemies, but not so strong as to tyrannize us.



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