The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that.

If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king.

With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?