A cynical yet honest 5-minute crash course in American constitutional law, by Duke law professor Walter Dellinger.

[B]road constitutional phrases are different from sports rules, so a judge would be like an umpire only if the game—instead of having a strike zone and a set number of balls, strikes, and outs—provided instead that “each batter shall have a fair chance to hit the ball” and “each team shall have a reasonably equal opportunity to score runs.”