Majority Opinion

Had those who drew and ratified the Due Process
Clauses of the Fifth Amendment or the Fourteenth
Amendment known the components of liberty in its mani-
fold possibilities, they might have been more specific.
They did not presume to have this insight. They knew
times can blind us to certain truths and later generations
can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in
fact serve only to oppress. As the Constitution endures,
persons in every generation can invoke its principles in
their own search for greater freedom.

That is beautiful.


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