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George H.W. Bush: “The role assigned to judges in our system is to interpret the Constitution and lesser laws, and not to make them.”

On the recordOctober 7, 1990
The role assigned to judges in our system is to interpret the Constitution and lesser laws, and not to make them.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Remarks at the Swearing-In Ceremony for David H. Souter as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

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