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.
ANTONIN SCALIAThe 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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[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.
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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.
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Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
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[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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Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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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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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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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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On this day, when we’re celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage – to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it’s a good idea.
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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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.
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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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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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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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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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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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Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
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This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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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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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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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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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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