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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.

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
If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.
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Faith Goodness Judgement Reach Wrong
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
Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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Amateuer Decoration Practice Science
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
In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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Eyes Government Oneself Race
A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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Close Search Table
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
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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Different Regulation State 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
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.
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Agreement Confirmation Constitution Document Judgement Politics Thinking
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
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
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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Busy Case Constitution Country Day Recognition
Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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Establishment Meaning State Word
Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
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Commitment Democracy Human Promise Tradition

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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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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