CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings November 24, 2015
To reach its decision, but over time it is accepted as the right principle. The court did the right thing. Thats important. It sets a high bar, High Aspirations for us. And as Justice Marshall said, at so many times were still climbing toward its goals. Jefferson in the declaration of independence promised that all men are created equal, yet he took slaves. The civil war the amendments tried to enshrine that in the constitution, but it took a century after that for brown to make the promise of the declaration of the reconstruction amendments a reality, but we certainly have not come close to a...