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| “Considerations of stare decisis are at their acme in case involving property and contract rights…The opposite is true in cases such as the present one involving procedural and | |
| “In approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868 when the amendment was adopted, or even to 1896 when Plessy v. Ferguson was written. We must consider public e | |
| “This case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain. If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory, I should desire to st | |
| “It may fairly be said that leaving accommodation to the political process will place at a disadvantage those religious practices that are not widely engaged in; but that unavoid | |
| “We conclude for several reasons that the Court of Appeals erred in holding mental retardation a quasi-suspect classification calling for a more exacting standard of judicial rev | |
| “The present case does not involve minors…It does not involve public conduct or prostitution. It does not involve whether government must give formal recognition to any relatio | |
| “It has been recognized that the action of state courts in enforcing a substantive common-law rule formulated by those courts, may result in the denial of rights guaranteed by th | |
| “We have sometimes said that these categories of expression are ‘not within the area of constitutionally protected speech,’ or that ‘protection of the first amendment does | |
| “While due process protection in the substantive sense limits what government may do in both its legislative and in its executive capacities, criteria to identify what is fatally | |
| “As we give deference to an association’s assertions regarding the nature of its expression, we must also give deference to an association’s view of what would impair its exp | |
| “Against this background, to claim that a right to engage in conduct that is ‘deeply rooted in this nation’s history or tradition’ or is ‘implicit in the concept of order | |
| “But it is also true that many decisions, even some that were questionable or controversial when rendered, have become part of the Fabric of American Life… Examples might inclu | |
| By patching together bits and pieces of what might be termed quasi-suspect-class and quasi-fundamental-rights analysis, the Court spins out a theory custom-tailored to the facts of | |
| “By the time the States ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, public schools had become relatively common. If students in public schools were originally understood as having [these] | |
| Question before us is whether the class of persons described...compose a portion of [the sovereign] people, and are constituent members of the sovereign people | |
| “The Constitution cannot control such prejudices but neither can it tolerate them. Private biases may be outside the reach of the law, but the law cannot, directly or indirectly, | |
| “To say that a decision is so thoroughly embedded in our national life that it should not be overruled, even though clearly wrong, is not necessarily to say that its principle sh | |
| “It is self-evident that a mother who comes to regret her choice to abort must struggle with grief more anguished and sorrow more profound when she learns, only after the event, | |
| “The appellee’s ultimate argument rests upon the presumption, common in criminal and civil law, that a person intends the natural and probable consequences of his voluntary act | |
| “We emphasize that nothing in our opinion prevents any state from placing further restrictions on the exercise of the takings power.” | |
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