"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."

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"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."

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"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."

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"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."

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"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."

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