The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
[Law is] vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right.
[It is] a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
A constitutional right . . . and once homosexuality is defined as a constitutional right, there is nothing the states can do about it, nothing the people can do about it.
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
Be indifferent, if not actively hostile, to conservative values.
The opposition reflected the polarization that existed in this country.
I was thinking of resigning [since] I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I [have] had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.
Without adherence to the original understanding, even the actual Bill of Rights could be pared or eliminated. It is asserted nonetheless, and sometimes on high authority, that the judicial philosophy of original understanding is fatally defective in any number of respects.
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
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.
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.
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.
This begins to demystify the presidency, and I'm not sure that's all bad.
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