If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
From William J. Brennan, Jr.
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
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