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Is That Which Was Deemed To Be Of So Fundamental A Nature As To Be Written Into The Constitution To Endure For All Times To Be The Sport Of Shifting Winds Of Doctrine?

The History Of Liberty Has Largely Been The History Of The Observance Of Procedural Safeguards.

It Would Be A Stultification Of The Responsibility Which The Course Of Constitutional History Has Cast Upon This Court To Hold That In Order To Convict A Man The Police Cannot Extract By Force What Is In His Mind, But Can Extract What Is In His Stomach.

Certainly The Affirmative Pursuit Of One's Convictions About The Ultimate Mystery Of The Universe And Man's Relation To It Is Placed Beyond The Reach Of Law. Government May Not Interfere With Organized Or Individual Expressions Of Belief Or Disbelief. Propagation Of Belief - Or Even Of Disbelief - In The Supernatural Is Protected, Whether In Church Or Chapel, Mosque Or Synagogue, Tabernacle Or Meeting-house.

The State Insists That, By Thus Quarantining The General Reading Public Against Books Not Too Rugged For Grown Men And Women In Order To Shield Juvenile Innocence, It Is Exercising Its Power To Promote The General Welfare. Surely This Is To Burn The House To Roast The Pig...the Incidence Of This Enactment Is To Reduce The Adult Population Of Michigan To Reading Only What Is Fit For Children.