Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart
Potter Stewartwas an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth23 January 1915
CityJackson, MI
CountryUnited States of America
rights people growth
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
writing men expression
The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas." To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice.
sunday forgotten togetherness
For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
citizens unattractive may
May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.
may today poor
The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.
way lightning unusual
These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.
taken punishment murder
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.
today kind obscenity
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
justice fairness
Fairness is what justice really is.
succeed kind obscenity
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.
differences knowing ethics
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
justice swiftness demand
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
home men rights
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
abortion different medical
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.