How can you have ... an absentee ballot if the process of getting it was in violation of the law?

We are very confident that, based on the evidence, we should clearly prevail.

And there was a third bidder who would have offered even more.

We are confident that we will have it reversed. We have met every evidentiary requirement that the Circuit Court of Appeals has said we needed to go to trial.

We believe very strongly that what occurred in this case was intentional, knowing wrongdoing because both the Republican Party and the supervisor of elections knew exactly what they were doing.

Progressives did not like the antiquated thinking that saw the Constitution as a barrier to government expansion. The "living Constitution" was born. That benign-sounding phrase (coined later) was conjured up to justify changing the Constitution, without formal amendment, from a limit on power to a blank check. What was impermissible to the federal government by an earlier interpretation became permissible once the Constitution was construed as a evolving document. But by that philosophy, the Constitution is no limit on government power at all. A constitutional government that defines its own powers is a contradiction in terms.