Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
Interpretation
Constitutional debates, though seemingly unexciting, can lead to significant outcomes.
This quote by George Will emphasizes that discussions surrounding constitutional matters, which may appear tedious or uninteresting, hold the potential to create profound and impactful results in society. It serves as a reminder that even the most mundane topics can lead to important changes and decisions that shape the legal and political landscape.
In practice
During a lecture on constitutional law, one might quote this to engage students.
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.
Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.
In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
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