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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?

Antonin Scalia

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
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
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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Fight Government Religion Thinking True
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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Literature Meaning Yourself
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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Constitution Economics Law
A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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Close Search Table
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
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
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Majority Right Worth
Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
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Commitment Democracy Human Promise Tradition
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’
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Children Creation Independence Parents Right
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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Children Family Kind Perfection
One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.
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Believe God Intellectual Reason Religion Sophistication
On this day, when we’re celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage – to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it’s a good idea.
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Celebration Constitution Day Faith Goodness Ideas Invention Restriction
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
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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Corruption Politics Power Togetherness War Willing
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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Criminal Determination Guilty Judgement Trust

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