If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow…

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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom...

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom...

The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...

The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated...

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated...

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If...

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If...

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and...

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and...

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of...

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of...

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new'...

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new'...