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Antonin Scalia

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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Acceptance Argument Encouragement Myself Sexuality
The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.
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Change Democracy Freedom Law Right Speech System Virtue
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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Attitude Change Growth Myself People Weapon
People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
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Better Exercise People Right Yourself
Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.
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Act Case Lose Myself Principle Rule Save Short
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
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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Knowledge Myself Weird
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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Criminal Determination Guilty Judgement Trust
Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act’s limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.
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Credit Decision exchange Law Limitation Tax Writing
Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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Public State Wish
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Basement Journey Machine Purpose
Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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Bed Burn Room Sanity
Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
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Destiny Fools Modern Regard Society World
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
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
The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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Investigation Silly Weird Wisdom

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