But who will have the final say as to what the Constitution means in a situation like this?
That is what the Constitution must mean today given what we know about human behavior.
Constitution means that for the trust to be valid, the property must have been transferred from the donor to the trustees.
That purpose is defeated if majorities decide what they want the Constitution to mean.
If confirmed, he will have much to say about what the Constitution means.
But it is quite another matter for a professor to state in a professional paper what he or she believes the Constitution means.
"They have to prove to me that the Constitution doesn't mean anything."
The Constitution meant what it said, he wrote, and so did the Court in 1880.
You pick the people who decide what the Constitution really means.
"They have an obligation to understand what the Constitution means," she said.