Michigan Bans Open Carry of Firearms at Polling Places

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"The Constitution is not a suicide pact."

Then, 14 years later in Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez(1963), Justice Goldberg wrote, “[W]hile the Constitution protects against invasions of individual rights, it is not a suicide pact.” The legal question in Kennedy was quite different than in Terminiello, as was Goldberg's use of the phrase.