policies. and agendas. she clerked for justice marshall, each well known activists, and she has described the most activist judge in the world as her hero. these judges really don't deny their activist ideas, they advocate it, and they openly criticize the idea that a judge is merely a neutral umpire. few would dispute this record tells us much about the nominee. in many respects, ms. kagan's career has been consumed more by politics than law, and this does worry many americans. in the wake of one of the largest expansions of government power in history, many americans are worried about washington's disregard for limits on its power. americans know that our exceptional constitution was written to insure that our federal government is one of limited, separated powers and part of a federal/state system