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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Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
タグ: changes, cannot, stand, law
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
タグ: ideas, world, home, family
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
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We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
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If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
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