Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like ‘reading down’, it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial...

The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment. Their roots are entangled too tenaciously in the surrounding soil for a clean...

If the good is not dependent on the bad and can be separated from it, one gives effect to the good that remains after the separation if it still gives effect to the main objective.

The difference between the past and the present is that individual freedom and security no longer fall to be protected solely through the D vehicle of common-law maxims and presumptions which may be altered or...

In the criminal law […] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials to make them public. They should be public all the time, open to...

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.