Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart
Potter Stewartwas an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth23 January 1915
CityJackson, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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censorship confidence hallmark lack reflects
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
abortion different medical
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
justice swiftness demand
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
differences knowing ethics
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
sunday forgotten togetherness
For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
citizens unattractive may
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 if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.
truth speaks-out law
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.
christian religious wall
I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ' wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.
succeed kind obscenity
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.
freedom-of-speech censoring-books censorship-in-books
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.