I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.