"The challenged regulations bear a rational relation to legitimate penological interests," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for seven members of the court.
Accordingly, the Constitution requires only that a citizenship requirement applicable to teaching in the public schools bear a rational relationship to a legitimate state interest.
The segregation of industries commercial pursuits and dwellings to particular districts in a city, when exercised reasonably, may bear a rational relation to the health, morals, safety and general welfare of the community.
Writing for himself and six others, Justice Kennedy said that while the regulations, particularly the two-year ban on visits, were "severe," they bore "a rational relation to legitimate penological interests" and did not fall below minimum constitutional standards.
They thus fell within the category of important officers who participate directly in the execution of "broad public policy". The Court was persuaded that citizenship bore a rational relationship to the special demands of police positions, and that a State therefore could constitutionally confine that public responsibility to citizens of the United States.
Both over- and under-inclusiveness are currently tolerated in Singapore under the rational nexus test, as a classification can still bear a rational relation to the legislative objective notwithstanding that it embraces more or less persons than its object requires.
Under that guarantee, if a law treats some people differently than others, it ordinarily will satisfy the demands of equal protection if "it bears even a rational relation to some legitimate end".
2842, 37 L.Ed.2d 853, and Foley v. Connelie, supra, and, accordingly, the Constitution requires only that a citizenship requirement applicable to teaching in the public school bear a rational relationship to a legitimate state interest.
In this system all parts of the painting bear a rational relation to each other and to the observer, for the observer's height and the distance he is to stand from the painting are controlled by the artist in laying out his perspective construction.
But Weiner does not appear to recognize that the duty of clarity bears a stronger resemblance to judicial engagement than modern rational-basis review does to either approach.
