The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.
May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask i… - Potter Stewart
May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask i…
- Potter Stewart
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it. - Potter Stewart
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. - Potter Stewart
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. - Potter Stewart
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perha… - Potter Stewart
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perha…
The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas."… - Potter Stewart
The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas."…
Fairness is what justice really is. - Potter Stewart
Fairness is what justice really is.
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. - Potter Stewart
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. - Potter Stewart
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
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