We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
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Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
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No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
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If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
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We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
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