Republican (proto-fascist/socialist) de facto governor Charles Evans Hughes, Esq., of New York, in a speech to the Chamber of Commerce, in Elmira, New York says, “We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is. …”
[restored 5/30/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
new york constitution of 1895, article I, section 8
www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/documents/publications_1894-ny-constitution.pdf
References:
Robert A. Levy and William Mellor, The Dirty Dozen: How twelve Supreme Court cases radically expanded government and eroded freedom, (New York: Sentinel, 2008), 51.
Charles Evans Hughes – Wikiquote
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes