Anthony Kennedy Quotes About First Amendment

• The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What the Constitution says is that these judgments are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority. Technology expands the capacity to choose; and it denies the potential of this revolution if we assume the Government is best positioned to make these choices for us.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Art, Technology, Government

• Las libertades de la Primera Enmienda corren mayor peligro cuando el gobierno pretende controlar el pensamiento o justificar sus leyes con ese fin inadmisible. El derecho a pensar es el principio de la libertad, y el discurso debe protegerse del gobierno porque el discurso es el principio del pensamiento.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Thinking, Government, Law

  Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234, 2002.

• La Primera Enmienda es a menudo inconveniente. Pero eso no viene al caso. La inconveniencia no exime al gobierno de su obligación de tolerar la libertad de expresión.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Freedom, Government, Doe

  International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee, 505 U.S. 672, caselaw.lp.findlaw.com. June 26, 1992.

• The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Religious, Exercise, People

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