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Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
– Justice Antonin Scalia
All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
– Benjamin Franklin, letter to Robert Morris, December 25, 1783

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