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You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment

Stephen Breyer's Popular Quotes

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

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It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty

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People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

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The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

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This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility suffi…

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Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes pl…

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Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

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To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

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There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

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