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...People seem to think that if you feel deeply about something, it's got to go in the Constitution," Scalia said. "That seems to me a very infantile view of things...
...Scalia said further that his priority is upholding the Constitution and the democratic philosophy which inspired it. "I've shown favoritism to those rights that are explicitly protected in the Constitution versus those rights that are not explicitly protected in the Constitution," he said...
...Scalia said this does not mean that all rights have to be specifically enumerated in the Constitution...
...Constitution is just a set of limited rights, and they aren't necessarily the most important rights. They are the rights that the government is most likely to trample on," Scalia said...
...Scalia went on to speak about the responsibilities of a judge to refrain from political partisanship...