Charles T. Canady Quotes
I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.
Canady, Charles T. "Investiture Remarks." Supreme Court of Florida, 30 Oct. 2008, Tallahassee, FL. Address.
The original draft presented to him had said “We the assembled delegates of ….” Morris made one of the most important and dramatic edits in the history of humanity. See {600144} for an idea of how determinative the phrase was years later.
Coolidge had no involvement in politics after his Presidency. He was never consulted by his successor and never resented that fact.
There is a certain redundancy in that “Fenian” means “Party.”
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For many people the implication of this quotation is that there should be no government secrets withheld from the citizens who have the right to examine. Others argue that government may have temporary secrets to protect against foreign enemies for example, but that these must be declassified very promptly so that the citizens can examine the actions of their government in time to replace the government if they are not satisfied. Almost all government officials tend to reject the first implication out of hand, and grudgingly accept the second with their discretion controlling when declassification should take place. The problem of America is twofold. There is much over-classification (material kept secret that should not be at all), and the time till declassification is long in general and truly absurd in many cases. For example, there are documents from WWII that by 2013 had still not been declassified. See {591444}, {641317}, and {589105} for exemplar views. William Jennings Bryan introduced this principle into the American political dialogue. See {641027}.
Charles Terrance Canady is an American attorney and judge serving on the Supreme Court of Florida since 2008, and has been its chief justice since July 1, 2018. He previously served a two-year term as chief justice from 2010 to 2012.
