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

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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

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

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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

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

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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.

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