The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constit… - Felix Frankfurter

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The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Felix Frankfurter

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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