People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
ANTONIN SCALIA
ANTONIN SCALIA
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Antonin Scalia58 quotes“People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.”
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I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia 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.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to ‘do what the people want,’ instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia [International law] doesn’t show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn’t show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what’s fundamentally important to somebody else today.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia 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.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Persuade your fellow citizens it’s a good idea and pass a law. That’s what democracy is all about. It’s not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia 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.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia The court’s job is to uphold the Constitution and you don’t call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?
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