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Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t.
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Allow Constitution Discrimination Rule Sex
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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Acceptance Argument Encouragement Myself Sexuality
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you’d like it to mean?
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Literature Meaning Yourself
The death penalty? Give me a break. It’s easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.
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Absolution Break Criminal Death State
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
This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
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Execution Pain Surgery
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.
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Fight Government Religion Thinking True
Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?
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Constitution Determination Easy Face Hide
To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.
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Death Morning Planning
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Basement Journey Machine Purpose
The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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Investigation Silly Weird Wisdom
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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Constitution Economics Law
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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Constitution Frame Job Practice Time
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.
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Convert Guarantee Process Race Sex Willing
In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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Eyes Government Oneself Race
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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Different Regulation State Yourself

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

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