The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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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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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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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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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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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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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it’s not perfect, that’s okay, there are a lot more coming along.
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As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to ‘do what the people want,’ instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.
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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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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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A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
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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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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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