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"When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions."
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"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."
"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."
"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason."
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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."
"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."
"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."
"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."
"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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