Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

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

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions

The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.