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.
ANTONIN SCALIAWords no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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[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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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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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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The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught and to let them know that there were others who shared this skepticism.
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The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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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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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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I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.
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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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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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In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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The 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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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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This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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