Antonin Scalia Quotes About Purpose
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The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.
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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught and to let them know that there were others who shared this skepticism.
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Antonin Scalia
- Born: March 11, 1936
- Died: February 13, 2016
- Occupation: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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