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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from…

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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow…
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit…
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to…
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the…
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an…
Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but…
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's…
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the…
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of…
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our…

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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit… — William J. Brennan
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done… — George Santayana
All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account… — Immanuel Kant
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now… — Richard Owen
If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they… — Edward Hoagland
No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I… — Mac Miller
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the… — Immanuel Wallerstein
We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the… — Unknown Author
Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too,… — Barbara Kingsolver
I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children. — Richard Dawson

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