With Respect To Public Acknowledgment Of Religious

Campaign Promises Are - By Long Democratic Tradition - The Least Binding Form Of Human Commitment.

Perhaps Sensing The Dismal Failure Of Its Efforts To Show That 'established By The State' Means 'established By The State Or The Federal Government,' The Court Tries To Palm Off The Pertinent Statutory Phrase As "inartful Drafting.' This Court, However, Has No Free-floating Power 'to Rescue Congress From Its Drafting Errors.'

It Would Also Be Strange To Find In The Midst Of A Catalog Of The Rights Of Individuals A Provision Securing To The States The Right To Maintain A Designated "militia." Dispassionate Scholarship Suggests Quite Strongly That The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Meant Just That.

Ever So Subtly, Without Even Alluding To The Last Obstacles Preserved By Earlier Opinions That We Now Push Out Of Our Path, We Effectively Replace The Goal Of A Discrimination-free Society With The Quite Imcompatible Goal Of Proportionate Representation By Race And By Sex In The Workplace.

Is It Really So Easy To Determine That Smacking Someone In The Face To Find Out Where He Has Hidden The Bomb That Is About To Blow Up Los Angeles Is Prohibited By The Constitution?