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"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
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"Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean."
"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."
"This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish."
"The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be."
"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."
"What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution."
"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."
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"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."
"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."
"The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights."
"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion."
"In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property."
"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."
"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
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