“My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.”

About Sam Ervin

Politician • American

Samuel 'Sam' J. Ervin Jr. was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A conservative Democrat, he was a staunch defender of the Constitution and individual...