To be more papist than the Pope will cease to be a thing exciting wonder if every day modern men, in the consideration of practical and pressing problems, are to be more narrowly constitutional than the men that wrote the Constitution!
Reid critiques the overly strict interpretation of the Constitution compared to the original framers' intentions.
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