Diane Wood Quotes

• The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

  Diane Wood

  Able, Way, Would Be

  "Chicago judge's record rates highly among progressives, colleagues" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2010.

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• It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

  Diane Wood

  Time, Long, Focus

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