今天這份材料，就是一份很好的，文筆優美，用詞儒雅，行文流暢，邏輯清晰的演講文章，里面很多觀點和例子都適合各位考友直接拿過來用在自己的作文之內，其中適合做新托福作文模板的一些句子，已經用粗體字進行標注。

不僅如此，因為文章整體邏輯性很強，也對于各位考友規范自己的邏輯思維之分有幫助，因此建議各位考友一定要好好注意一下里面的邏輯是如何順承和連接的，你一定會很有收獲的！

【演講人介紹】
戴維·哈維特·蘇特（David Souter，1939年9月17日－），自1990年出任美國最高法院大法官，直至于2009年6月29日退休。他1961年畢業于哈佛學院，1966年畢業于哈佛法學院。

When I was younger I used to hear Harvard stories from a member of the class of 1885. Back then, old graduates of the College who could get to Cambridge on Commencement Day didn't wait for reunion years to come back to the Yard. They'd just turn up, see old friends, look over the new crop, and have a cup of Commencement punch under the elms. The old man remembered one of those summer days when he was heading for the Square after lunch and crossed paths with a newly graduated senior, who had enjoyed quite a few cups of that punch. As the two men approached each other the younger one thrust out his new diploma and shouted, "Educated, by God."

Even with an honorary Harvard doctorate in my hands I know enough not to shout that across the Yard, but the University's generosity does make me bold enough to say that over the course of nineteen years on the（這里的I全要換成其他人?。?Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States, and about what judges do when they apply it in deciding cases with constitutional issues. I'm going to draw on that experience in the course of the next few minutes, for it is as a judge that I have been given the honor to speak this before you（I和you也全要進行替換?。?

The occasion for our coming together like this aligns with the approach of two separate events on the judicial side of the （作文金句啊?。?/strong>national public life: the end of the Supreme Court's Term, with its quickened pace of decisions, and a confirmation proceeding for the latest nominee to fill a seat on the Court. We will as a consequence be hearing and discussing a particular sort of（用在第一段很棒） criticism that is frequently aimed at the more controversial Supreme Court decisions: criticism that the Court is making up the law, that the Court is announcing constitutional rules that cannot be found in the Constitution, and that the Court is engaging in activism to extend civil liberties. A good many of us, I'm sure a good many of us here, intuitively react that this sort of commentary tends to miss the mark. But we don't often pause to consider in any detail the conceptions of the Constitution and of constitutional judging that underlie the critical rhetoric, or to compare them with the notions that lie behind our own intuitive responses. I'm going to try to make some of those comparisons this afternoon.

文章大意：

我年輕時，曾經遇到過一個1885級的哈佛學長。他告訴我，有一年夏天，他來到哈佛廣場，路上碰見一個應屆畢業生。只見那個畢業生舉著文憑大喊：”上帝保佑，總算學完了”。
即使哈佛大學給我頒發榮譽博士學位，我也不敢沖著各位這樣喊。但是，校方希望我談談在最高法院的19年經歷，那么我接下來就以一個退休法官的身份，說說我對美國《憲法》、以及法官如何實施《憲法》的認識。

現在，社會上有一種批評，認為最高法院在創造法律，在做出一些《憲法》中找不到依據的裁決。我認為，這種批評太片面，沒有理解憲法和最高法院判決的重點。那些批評者似乎有一種印象，認為《憲法》就是一個模板，公民和政府只要在《憲法》中找到特定的條款，就能認定自己的權利受到憲法保護。根據這種認識，判決憲法案件就成了一字一句機械地解讀《憲法》，以及對證據的客觀檢驗。