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"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."
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"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
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"This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one."
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"I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it."
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"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
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"Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846."
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"Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum."
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"My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it."
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"The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches."
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"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
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"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."
Constitution
"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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"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason."
Society
"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."
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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."
Morality
"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."
Constitution
"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."
Society
"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
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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 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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