Supreme Court opinion · Legal writingWhether, to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest.William J. Brennan, Jr.1957★ 5.1
Supreme Court opinion · Legal writingAll ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance—unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion—have the full protection of the guaranties... But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance... We hold that obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press.William J. Brennan, Jr.1957★ 5.1
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writingIf the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.William J. Brennan, Jr.Eisentadt v. Baird · 1972★ 5.1
LectureWe current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look into the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But, the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but it's in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.William J. Brennan, Jr.1985★ 5.1
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