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Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes once said that the Constitution means what the judges say it means He was defining the Supreme Court?
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Flossie Kozey
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∙ 9y agoCharles Evans Hughes was Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941. In defending judicial review, he was quoted as saying, "We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."
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