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Antonin Scalia

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
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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Different Regulation State Yourself
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
[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.
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Change Democracy Elimination God
Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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Bed Burn Room Sanity
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
The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.
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Attitude Change Growth Myself People Weapon
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
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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Celebration Constitution Day Faith Goodness Ideas Invention Restriction
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
[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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Constitution Enjoyment Government Minimum Right Time Violence War Yourself
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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Brain Character Learning Mindset Physical Skills World
In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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Eyes Government Oneself Race
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
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
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Change Meaning Word
[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

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