The wise do not investigate such silliness.
ANTONIN SCALIACertainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
More Antonin Scalia Quotes
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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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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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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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Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act’s limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.
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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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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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Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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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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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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The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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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.’
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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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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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.
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