If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
ANTONIN SCALIATo many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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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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It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
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To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.
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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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Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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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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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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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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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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It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.
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To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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