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

Felix Frankfurter
Libertarian Party, Liberty, Constitution
"Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 466". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 27, 1939.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.