“When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.” StatesHumanityUnderstandingLibertyCrimeCommitMatureDeath PenaltyJuvenileHeinous Crimes Author:Anthony Kennedy
“The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general.” StatesGovernmentActionReadingEffectsDecidedTestsCourtIdentificationLemonsPrecedent Author:Anthony Kennedy
“The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.” StatesLawPurposeEffectsGayProtectDignityOvercomingStatutesPersonhood Author:Anthony Kennedy
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsStatesReligionBeliefReligiousWrittenAtheismModernCenturyDutyCitizensExerciseLessonsConscienceMarkSpheresAmendmentsTimelessModern WorldUrgentFirst Amendment18th Century Author:Anthony Kennedy
