Persuade Your Fellow Citizens It's A Good

Nowhere Else In The Constitution Does A "right" Attributed To "the People" Refer To Anything Other Than An Individual Right. What Is More, In All Six Other Provisions Of The Constitution That Mention "the People," The Term Unambiguously Refers To All Members Of The Political Community, Not An Unspecified Subset... The Second Amendment Extends, Prima Facie, To All Instruments That Constitute Bearable Arms... The Very Text Of The Second Amendment Implicitly Recognizes The Pre-existence Of The Right And Declares Only That It "shall Not Be Infringed."

This Is An Execution, Not Surgery. Where Does That Come From, That You Must Find The Method Of Execution That Causes The Least Pain?

Justice White's Conclusion Is Perhaps Correct, If One Assumes That The Task Of A Court Of Law Is To Plumb The Intent Of The Particular Congress That Enacted A Particular Provision. That Methodology Is Not Mine Nor, I Think, The One That Courts Have Traditionally Followed. It Is Our Task, As I See It, Not To Enter The Minds Of The Members Of Congress - Who Need Have Nothing In Mind In Order For Their Votes To Be Both Lawful And Effective - But Rather To Give Fair And Reasonable Meaning To The Text Of The United States Code, Adopted By Various Congresses At Various Times.

[if Critics Of The Pledge Of Allegiance Persuaded The Public It Should Be Changed] Then We Could Eliminate Under God From The Pledge Of Allegiance, That Could Be Democratically Done.

There Is Nothing New In The Realization That The Constitution Sometimes Insulates The Criminality Of A Few In Order To Protect The Privacy Of Us All.