If this country wanted its Supreme Court to reflect the immediate social or political wishes of the people, it would provide for the election of the Court. And if the Founding Fathers had wanted it that way, they could have said so—or at least hinted at it. They did just the opposite: they designed a system that tried to immunize the Court from the changing moods and passions of the people.

speech to American Bar Association, New York City, in The New York Times, August 12, 1986