"The Framers of the Bill of Rights did……" — William J. Brennan
"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 infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting."
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43 Quotes by William J. Brennan
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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…
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due…
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient…
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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with…
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit…
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression…
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory…
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The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the…
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With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that…
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the…
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own,…
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Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp…
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