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But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

Antonin Scalia

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
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It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
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Constitution Difficult Illusion Invention Maintain Oneself
[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.
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Benefit Consequence Cost Freedom Ignorance
Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
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Destiny Fools Modern Regard Society World
To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.
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Belief Honesty Regard Simplicity Traditional
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Basement Journey Machine Purpose
The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught and to let them know that there were others who shared this skepticism.
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Purpose Share Society Teaching
Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.
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Act Case Lose Myself Principle Rule Save Short
It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.
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Ambience Contradiction Model Respect Statement
For in order for capitalism to work — in order for it to produce a good and a stable society — the traditional Christian virtues are essential.
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Essential Order Production Society Virtue
The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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Interest Law Principle Protection Stability State
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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Criminal Determination Guilty Judgement Trust
People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
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Better Exercise People Right Yourself
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
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Constitution Crime Privacy Protection Realization
Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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Bed Burn Room Sanity
If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
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Feeling Moral Murder Sexuality

But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

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