There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.