Judges are among them. In resisting their influence, we are crippled by a doctrine, invented by liberals, that whatever the Supreme Court says about the Constitution is final, and only it can make any pronouncements at all. This novelty belies both good sense and history. Lincoln, for example, ran on a platform of forbidding the spread of slavery into the federal territories, that is, the land belonging to the Union not yet incorporated as states. In the case of Dred Scott, the Supreme Court said this policy was unconstitutional.
Nothing can change that.
But the larger question of what the Congress and the president have the power to do, concerns not only the courts, but also the Congress, the president, and the people. They have a say, too. Let us proceed with our policy. If we vindicate it before the people, all will be well. Let us adopt that approach here.