For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

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.

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.

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.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.