{"id":1247472,"date":"2022-01-27T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1247472"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:24:22","slug":"im-an-optimist-justice-breyer-pulls-out-pocket-constitution-says-he-believes-american-experiment-will-prevail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-an-optimist-justice-breyer-pulls-out-pocket-constitution-says-he-believes-american-experiment-will-prevail\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m An Optimist\u2019: Justice Breyer Pulls Out Pocket Constitution, Says He Believes American \u2018Experiment\u2019 Will Prevail"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-an-optimist-justice-breyer-pulls-out-pocket-constitution-says-he-believes-american-experiment-will-prevail%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1247472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden joined Justice Stephen Breyer for a joint announcement about the justice\u2019s imminent retirement, and Breyer offered a statement denoting his faith that the \u201cAmerican experiment\u201d would continue to succeed under the next generation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/as-supreme-court-hears-challenge-against-race-based-college-admissions-joe-biden-wants-race-based-supreme-court-nominee\/\">Biden<\/a> first announced his plan to follow through on his campaign promise to nominate the first black woman to a seat on the highest court, adding that he hoped to have a name in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately afterward, he introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/justice-stephen-breyer-stepping-down\/\">Breyer<\/a>, praising his record on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, Mr. President. That is terribly nice. Believe me, I hold it right here here,\u201d Breyer began, placing his hand over his heart. \u201cIt\u2019s wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought about what I might say to you and something I enjoy is talking to a high school students and grammar school students, college students and even law school students. They will come around and ask me, what does is it that you find particularly meaningful about your job and what gives you a thrill? That\u2019s not such a tough question for me to answer,\u201d Breyer continued, noting that after hearing so many cases, the one thing that was always clear was that the United States of America is a \u201ccomplicated country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s every race, every religion and she would emphasize this, and it\u2019s every point of view possible. It\u2019s a kind of miracle when you sort of see all those people in front of you and yet they have decided to help solve their major differences under law,\u201d Breyer continued, pulling out a pocket Constitution. \u201cThe people that have come to accept this Constitution, they come to accept the importance of the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breyer went on to say that the important thing to remember about the rule of law in America is that it has always been an experiment \u2014 a point that was carefully detailed in Abraham Lincoln\u2019s Gettysburg Address, which Breyer said his wife had paid their grandchildren to memorize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason, what we wanted them to pick up there, \u2018Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought upon \u2014 created upon this \u2014 a country, a new country that was dedicated to liberty and the proposition that all men are created equal, conceived in liberty, those were his words,\u201d Breyer continued. \u201cAnd dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, he meant women too. We are now engaged in a great civil war to determine that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breyer noted that the Europeans looked across the Atlantic Ocean and said that it was \u201ca great idea in principle, but it will never work.\u201d But men like George Washington and Lincoln pressed forward because they believed that it would work. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what people still think today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say I want you, and I\u2019m talking to the students now. And I say I want you to pick just this up. And I will tell you something, you know who will see whether that experiment works? It\u2019s you, my friend. It\u2019s you, Mr. high school student. It\u2019s you Mr. college student, it\u2019s us, but it\u2019s you. It\u2019s the next generation, and the one after that. My grandchildren and their children. They will determine whether the experiment still works. Of course I\u2019m an optimist and I\u2019m pretty sure it will. Does it surprise you that that\u2019s the thought that comes into my mind today? I\u2019ll never know. But thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breyer on whether the American experiment of self-governance will ultimately work: \u201cI\u2019m an optimist, and I\u2019m pretty sure it will.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j8GPiTsxSS\">pic.twitter.com\/j8GPiTsxSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1486759046262652932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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