An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

Quote by Robert Bork

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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential...

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential...

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society...

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society...

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality...

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality...

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court...

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court...

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a...

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a...

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic...

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic...

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their...

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their...

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos...

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos...

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools,...

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools,...

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and...

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and...

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are...

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are...

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates...

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates...