Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
ANTONIN SCALIAThe 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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Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
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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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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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The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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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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Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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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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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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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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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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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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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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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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