Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
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It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
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The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
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The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.
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