Calculated Risks Of Abuse Are Taken In

For Better Or Worse, Editing Is What Editors Are For; And Editing Is Selection And Choice Of Material. That Editors Newspaper Or Broadcast Can And Do Abuse This Power Is Beyond Doubt, But That Is No Reason To Deny The Discretion Congress Provided.

[i]n Constitutional Adjudication Some Steps, Which When Taken Were Thought To Approach 'the Verge,' Have Become The Platform For Yet Further Steps. A Certain Momentum Develops In Constitutional Theory And It Can Be A 'downhill Thrust' Easily Set In Motion But Difficult To Retard Or Stop.

The Men Who Wrote The First Amendment Religion Clause Did Not View Paid Legislative Chaplains And Opening Prayers As A Violation Of That Amendment... The Practice Of Opening Sessions With Prayer Has Continued Without Interruption Ever Since That Early Session Of Congress. It Can Hardly Be Thought That In The Same Week The Members Of The First Congress Voted To Appoint And Pay A Chaplain For Each House And Also Voted To Approve The Draft Of The First Amendment... (that) They Intended To Forbid What They Had Just Declared Acceptable.

Calculated Risks Of Abuse Are Taken In Order To Preserve Higher Values.

We May Be Well On Our Way To A Society Overrun By Hordes Of Lawyers, Hungry As Locusts, And Brigades Of Judges In Numbers Never Before Contemplated.