Unlawful Acts Quotes
Referring to his opponent, John McClellan. Attack campaigning and slandering one’s opponent has a long history in American Politics.
Essentially, Scalia held that it was the job of the legislature to correct evils of society that he felt were not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. Other justices have argued that if the things are so evil and serious that they deny an individual the rights that were mentioned in the Constitutional, then they might be unconstitutional.
Religious Fundamentalists had made the sale, use and/or information about contraception illegal in many states until 1963 when the Supreme Court found that a state could not jail a pharmacist for filling a prescription for a woman who would die if she became pregnant again. The contraception issue seemed settled in America but the culture wars of the late 20th century and early 21st century brought it to the forefront again. Many fundamentalists who oppose both contraception and abortion chose to concentrate only on the abortion issue as so many American women used contraception. But many of the anti abortion groups also oppose legal contraception and see it as enabling sexual promiscuity—the position that Santorum held as is illustrated by this quotation.
by having their pay eliminated Prior to the American Revolution, the Anglican Church was the official church of Virginia; its ministers were paid by the state and this practice was under debate.
Referring to General and then Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall:
Testifying for air power proponent General Billy Mitchell at his court martial, the Congressman described the quality of Mitchell's superiors:
