The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice.

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

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.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

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.