It was the 2009 Constitution Day conference at Cato’s headquarters in Washington.

Over lunch, I said to a group of my constitutional lawyer friends, “Isn’t this great?  There are people studying and talking about the Constitution like never before in our lifetimes.”

We constitutional lawyers on the right fighting for liberty were used to defeat.  Liberty was being taken away through our elected officials and the courts.  The media was horrendously agains...