Cases Quote by Anthony Kennedy

“The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.”

Anthony Kennedy

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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 defined themselves…

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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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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 each generation…

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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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