Partly it was the Congressmen .... The model of a joint hearing.. . was.., a fiasco. But finally, it is we the people who are responsible .... Throughout that summer, we listened but we did not really hear. The basic constitutional structures we have labored for two eenturies to preserve are so little a part of our understanding that we eould watch them compromised without even noticing.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 612