The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
ANTONIN SCALIAI even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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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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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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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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A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
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The death penalty? Give me a break. It’s easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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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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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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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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[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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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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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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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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In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
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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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Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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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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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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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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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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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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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 wise do not investigate such silliness.
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