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"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
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"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
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"This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one."
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"I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it."
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"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
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"My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it."
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"The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches."
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"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
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"If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."
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"Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights."
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"No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting."
Character
"The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry."
Change
"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
Constitution
"But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist."
Time
"In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy."
History
"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."
Journalism
"And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story."
Competition
"Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits."
Behavior
"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."
Now
"For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance."
Life
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