Pro-Gun Hearings

“Congress does not enforce a constitutional right by changing what the right is. It has been given the power to enforce, not the power to determine what constitutes a constitutional violation.”—June 25, 1997

“If Congress believes that such a statute will benefit the people of the nation, we should respect both its policy judgment and its appraisal of its constitutional power.”—June 27, 1997 — Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens