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My interest is less in what's invisible "around" the Constitution than in what is invisible within it.

— Laurence Tribe

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "My interest is less in what's invisible "around" the Constitution than in what is invisible within it." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Laurence Tribe

About Laurence Tribe

Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is an American constitutional law scholar, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the Harvard Law School, and co-founder of the American Constitution Society. He is the author of several books, including a major treatise, American Constitutional Law (1978) and has argued before the United States Supreme Court dozens of times.