Mike Pence: “the history of our Nation was forged in the balmy summer of 1787 in what was at the time the statehouse of Pennsylvania…”

“the history of our Nation was forged in the balmy summer of 1787 in what was at the time the statehouse of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. There the geniuses who created the Constitution of the United States created three separate branches of government and a system of checks and balances within that government that would provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and ensure the blessings of liberty for not only themselves but we, their posterity. Central to that balance of power, Mr. Speaker, was the notion of an independent judiciary, which, at the level of the Federal Court, would be governed by the appointment of the President of the United States. But again it was not without checks and balances, Mr. Speaker, because the Senate itself, under the Constitution, was given the authority to review the qualifications of individuals that the chief executive would appoint for the judiciary. And so our Nation proceeded from the basement home of the Supreme Court, which is still in this building today, back when it met just off the House Chamber for one day a year, to the august building and the awesome legacy of the U.S. Supreme Court today.”