إنّ الشعب، لا القضاة، هو صاحب الحق في تحديد معنى دستوره، فالدستور دستوره، وهو له لا لموظفيه الرسميين. وأيّ نظرية غير هذه تتنافى مع المبادئ الأساسية لحكومتنا.

“It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.”Theodore Roosevelt — Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current Proposals for Constitutional Change Affecting the Relation of Courts to Legislation (2007)