The Constitution isn’t controversial. Hating it is
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Sept. 17, 2024, marks 235 years of our Constitution. We celebrate Constitution Day or we should. But now, too many on the left attack our founding documents as 'dangerous.'
It took 58 years and the tireless efforts of civil rights heroes like Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to overturn Plessy in Brown v. Board of Education. There, the court unanimously recognized what the Constitution had required all along: "separate is inherently unequal" and requires desegregation. Anastasia Boden is a senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm that defends Americans' liberty against government overreach and abuse.
Contrary to the critics, the worst injustices in our nation’s history have come when the government has strayed from the Constitution’s original meaning. Consider Plessy v. Ferguson, Korematsu v. United States and Buck v. Bell. Each case is a blight in our nation’s legal history, and each resulted because the Supreme Court deviated from the Constitution’s text.