In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
ANTONIN SCALIAWhy in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’
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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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One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.
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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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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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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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With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation’s historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.
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The 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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[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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A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
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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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