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“I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed,”

William Rehnquist

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Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

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Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.

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The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

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The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide…

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The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

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In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest…

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I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

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It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's…

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It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will…

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