"It's not a racial classification," Justice Antonin Scalia said of the ballot initiative.
And as we lumber toward justice, some of those classifications remain useful, even separate from other factors like economic class.
Basing our notions of justice on overgeneralizations about classifications like age is ill advised, as is basing our principles of law on a world view.
"What has been proposed by police ministers and justice ministers is that this classification be changed so its availability be more restricted," Turnbull said Wednesday.
The four cardinal virtues of the Stoic philosophy are wisdom (Sophia), courage (Andreia), justice (Dikaiosyne), and temperance (Sophrosyne), a classification derived from the teachings of Plato.
Historically, illicit drug misuse has been linked with the criminal justice system and the system of classification currently in use reflects this.
Justice Thomas wrote that "beneficial and burdensome racial classifications are equally invalid," not equally valid.
Goldsmith, a former justice department official under George W. Bush, notes that over-classification has become a rampant problem in recent years.
The Australian federal police is refusing to release its advice on the classification of lever-action shotguns given to the justice minister in a meeting earlier this year.
The AFP commissioner, Andrew Colvin, met the justice minister, Michael Keenan, in February 2016 to discuss the importation and classification of lever-action shotguns.
