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Letter "R" » Robert Bork Quotes
«In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge»
Author: Robert Bork
| About:
Democracy,
Law and lawyers,
Morality
| Keywords:
be given, constitutional, framer, Framers, legislator
«An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.»
Author: Robert Bork
«Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere»
Author: Robert Bork
| Keywords:
adhere, adhered, adheres, adhering, endorse, endorsed, Judges, temptations, The Temptations, Utopia, Utopias
«Without adherence to the original understanding, even the actual Bill of Rights could be pared or eliminated. It is asserted nonetheless, and sometimes on high authority, that the judicial philosophy of original understanding is fatally defective in any number of respects.»
Author: Robert Bork
«The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.»
Author: Robert Bork
«A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.»
Author: Robert Bork
«The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.»
Author: Robert Bork
«The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.»
Author: Robert Bork
«How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right.»
Author: Robert Bork
«Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.»
Author: Robert Bork
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