See constitutionolatry on Wiktionary
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"text": "But now, frankly, does not the spirit of The News breathe a false constitution[-]olatry? It is claimed that the Supreme Court has exceeded the bounds of the constitution or perhaps in the language of [Thomas] Jefferson, stretched it till it cracked.",
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"text": "In 1776 it was the tyranny of a despot; in 1936 it is the pressure of the dead hand upon the living present; a constitutionolatry like that of the Scribes and Pharisees for the Pentateuch, of the Talmudic rabbis for the Mosaic code.",
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"text": "Father [Edward] Dowling branded the theory of the separation of powers on which the Court is based as un-Christian, unethical, un-American, unsafe, undemocratic, unnecessary and un-constitutional. “It is the Court,” he said, “that has given more weight to a cemetery in Virginia than to the votes of 120,000,000 people. Constitutionolatry and cemeteryocracy are not democracy.[…]”",
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"text": "Constitutionolatry / Many good epigrams have been coined about the British constitution—that myth—but it always pleases me to find one I had not heard of before. My latest discovery I owe to J. E. C. Bodley, Dilke’s secretary, who, in his classic work on France published in 1898 and in the course of some pungent remarks about continental anglophilia, said of the British constitution: ‘As the Church of England says of one of its sacraments, it is not intended to be “carried about or worshipped”.’ Alas! it is not in much danger of that these days.",
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"ref": "2011 March 18, @kashicat [Phil 🇨🇦], Twitter (post), archived from the original on 18 Jun 2023:",
"text": "@jianghomeshi American \"constitutionolatry\" is so bizarre. It was written TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Things change, moron!",
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"text": "What’s weird (to me too) is what you might dub constitutionolatry - the notion that the Founders were geniuses who discovered the uniquely best way to govern society. So much American political debate is conducted through “interpreting” the Founders’ constitutional intent.",
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