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Show 122 interpretation becomes more dear when he stQtes that! thus, you see, I am not only Q great admirer of our con stitutional sebeme but Q thoroughgoing bel lever in it. In that, even though I am· not (I lawyer I t think you Md I agree. aut that does not meon that we cannot make this good scheme work more perfectly. We can, if We ore able to get rid ., certain dominating slogans which make us think in terms that are not founded upon fact o.r truth c:md cause us to feel our inability to overcome the iUs that bind us. There is d chanee for reUef from this sItuation because pol iticQJ law i'n tim. always follows that whleh In nature is deemed to be Q physi cal foct.7 •• Thomas • categorically the UnIted States d·ency, the the 8 uary _ Q Ibid., e never deod thing and that he could Congress, end the beginninG of 7 mctintalns that he could Courts.8 living organism. 9 interpret the Constitution Gf not separate from it the Presi The Constitution is not on Thomas, oItheugh realizing end but it m.ely WQ$ not the p. 1436. Congressional Record, Vol" 83, p, A775, (75th Congress,. 3d Seas., Jan- 21; 1938). 9 Idem. Also, aWhen we odop'ed the Constitution of the U.nited Stot. we did not dO sOmething in 0 vacuum. Mr. President, all we hove to do is look at the seal of the United States as it oJ)PeGfS on one of our doll. bills, and there we see the wordt showing that the founding feathers asked the blessing of God upon their beginning ln the establishment of Q new order in the world. It is wodh point ina out thot when one of the great Chief Jvstle. of the United States handed down a deeision, which wos perfectly logical and fitted in with the .chern. and patriotism of the founding fathers II decision b.ed on the theo,y that Q new order had been eitabl ished Gnd that therefore they did not have to consider the post the people of the United States rose up and adopted Q constitutional amendment call ing attention to the foet that all that had gone before belonged to them in this new order, end ,that nothing was set up in a vacuum, that nothing was storted without regard to what hod previously happened, but that there was antecedent for whet they did. So, Mr. Praldent, the Constitution of the United Stotes WQS Q document of de,legated powers by which the people of the United Stat. said where the powers were to be placed.11 Ibid., Vol. 94, p. 1107, (80th Congress, 2d. Sess., February - _, - 5, 1948). |
