"But," Obama said, "The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasnÂ’t that radical. It didnÂ’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, as least as itÂ’s been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted in the same way that, generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states canÂ’t do to you, says what the federal government canÂ’t do to you, but it doesnÂ’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasnÂ’t shifted."