The Court is like a palace of marble... it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
The Court is like a palace built of marble in that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.
The Court is, at root, essentially all about semantics, because words are the tools with which one works, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written, and thus everything upon whuich our understanding of them depends.
The Court is independent form the public will. The court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not, on another occasion, indulge its own will.
The Court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.