Thurgood Marshall's Timeline: Life, Photos, and Key Events

"Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives.?"

"[T]he Constitution was a product of its times.?[Progressive]"

"I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ?fixed? at the Philadelphia Convention? To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start.?[Progressive]"