It renounces authority, cuts athwart custom, violates the sacred, rejects the myths.
It violates the principles of free government by subjecting the Judiciary to the Legislature.
But with regard to the merely contingent, or, as it may be called, constructive injury which a person causes to society, by conduct which neither violates any specific duty to the public, nor occasions perceptible hurt to any assignable individual except himself; the inconvenience is one which society can afford to bear, for the sake of the greater good of human freedom.