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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.

Antonin Scalia

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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Law World Yourself
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
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
[International law] doesn’t show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn’t show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what’s fundamentally important to somebody else today.
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Constitution Day Fundamental Important Meaning Original
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
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Majority Right Worth
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
In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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Eyes Government Oneself Race
The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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Interest Law Principle Protection Stability State
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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Allow Constitution Discrimination Rule Sex
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
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Basement Journey Machine Purpose
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
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Change Meaning Word
The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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Investigation Silly Weird Wisdom
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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Essential Order Production Society Virtue
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
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

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