Constitution Quotes by Anthony Kennedy

9 Constitution quotes by Anthony Kennedy

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Kennedy’s reflections on constitutional principles shine across nine crisp remarks, delivering a swift snapshot of his judicial philosophy.

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As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

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The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.

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The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

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Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans…

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The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful…

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You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has…

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The fascination about being a judge is the same about the duty of being a judge, and that is to ask yourself,…

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A commitment to the Constitution is not something that's genetic. It's not inherited. It's not automatic. It has to be taught. And…

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The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested,…

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The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson…

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As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

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No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The…

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Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than…

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The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb…

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The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to…

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The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification…

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The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed.…

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Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification…

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At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery…

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If the case is close, 5-4, and let's say you are on the side that prevailed with the majority, there are not a lot…

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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

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