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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

Antonin Scalia

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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Freedom Intimacy Marriage Oneself Spirituality
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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Law World Yourself
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
[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
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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Knowledge Myself Weird
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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Different Regulation State Yourself
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.
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Adoption Citizenship Constitution Flexibility Live Yourself
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
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Convert Guarantee Process Race Sex Willing
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
But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.
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Believe Hands Ourselves Soldier
[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
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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Acknowledgement Atheist History Nation Practice Public Respect
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Basement Journey Machine Purpose
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
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Majority Right Worth
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
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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Feeling Moral Murder Sexuality

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