There Is Nothing New In The Realization

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

If We're Picking People To Draw Out Of Their Own Conscience And Experience A 'new' Constitution, We Should Not Look Principally For Good Lawyers. We Should Look To People Who Agree With Us. When We Are In That Mode, You Realize We Have Rendered The Constitution Useless.

If, Even As The Price To Be Paid For A Fifth Vote, I Ever Joined An Opinion For The Court That Began: 'the Constitution Promises Liberty To All Within Its Reach, A Liberty That Includes Certain Specific Rights That Allow Persons, Within A Lawful Realm, To Define And Express Their Identity,' I Would Hide My Head In A Bag. The Supreme Court Of The United States Has Descended From The Disciplined Legal Reasoning Of John Marshall And Joseph Story To The Mystical Aphorisms Of The Fortune Cookie.

When Did It Become Unconstitutional To Exclude Homosexual Couples From Marriage? 1791? 1868, When The 14th Amendment Was Adopted?

To Allow The Policy Question Of Same-sex Marriage To Be Considered And Resolved By A Select, Patrician, Highly Unrepresentative Panel Of Nine Is To Violate A Principle Even More Fundamental Than No Taxation Without Representation: No Social Transformation Without Representation.