I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
I consider the difference between a system founded on the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how,… — Diane Wood Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in… — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Karzai is Afghanistan's first democratically elected president. He brought the international community into partnership on an unprecedented level, and he championed a… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Naturalization Act of 1790, three years after the Constitution, said the children of citizens shall be considered natural born citizens. That's… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and… — Rocky Anderson Copy Share Image
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is not democracy to send in billions of dollars to push regime change overseas. It isn't democracy to send in the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George -… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the… — P. Sathasivam Copy Share Image
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In appointing someone to serve on the Alabama Supreme Court, it is imperative to appoint someone with impeccable legal credentials and with… — Kay Ivey Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We, conservatives, want a particular legal… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The wide and unregulated power of contempt given to the courts has been deliberately interpreted by the courts in a manner which… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
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