We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

Charles Evans Hughes
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In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the United States.

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