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.
One man’s larceny is another’s just distribution of goods.
No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.
The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.
Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.
As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves – not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.
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.