![Antonin Scalia Quote - [If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/if-critics-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance-persuaded-t.jpg)
![Antonin Scalia Quote - [If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/grey-if-critics-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance-p.jpg)
![Antonin Scalia Quote - [If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/blue-if-critics-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance-p.jpg)
![Antonin Scalia Quote - [If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/red-if-critics-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance-p.jpg)
![Antonin Scalia Quote - [If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/brown-if-critics-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance-p.jpg)
![Antonin Scalia Quote - [If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/white-if-critics-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance-p.jpg)
Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
ANTONIN SCALIA
[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.
![Antonin Scalia Quote - [The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/the-government-has-room-to-scale-back-individual-r-683x1024.jpg)
![Antonin Scalia Quote - [If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/if-critics-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance-persuaded-t-683x1024.jpg)
![Antonin Scalia Quote - The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/the-virtue-of-a-democratic-system-with-a-constitut-683x1024.jpg)
![Antonin Scalia Quote - Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/who-ever-thought-that-intimacy-and-spirituality-wh-683x1024.jpg)
