When a case comes to me, I don't do whatever I feel like doing. I have a standard. That standard is what would the people at the time the Constitution was enacted have said.
--Antonin Scalia, Speech at the University of Fribourg, March 8, 2008
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
--Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
I have always known that, for example, the gun business was utter nonsense. It's taking politicians longer than usual to develop a sense of integrity and put some parameters around that highly profitable business. They'll eventually need to do the same for Amazon, Apple and others of that ilk.