In my view, the most important part of Powell's paper is his claim that, by declining to lecture the reader about the proper attributes of a constitutional conscience, I am portraying the conscience and faith of the constitutional decisionmaker "in the only truthful manner." It is consistent with this view that I should therefore offer the reader a moral choice about undertaking the activity I describe.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 169