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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?

Antonin Scalia

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
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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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[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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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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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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People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
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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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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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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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Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?
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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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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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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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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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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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