I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
The retention of the power to punish for contempt for acts of speech alone, which do not directly interfere with the administration… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain… — Mark Goodwin Copy Share Image
A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets… — Gatewood Galbraith Copy Share Image
We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“It has often been suggested to me that the Constitution of the United States is a sufficient safeguard for the freedom of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I feel that the justices that I am going to appoint - and I've named 20 of them - the justices that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
How we decide the vexed issue of the method of selection of judges of the Supreme Court and the high courts would… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great… — John Stark Copy Share Image
“The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder… — Eric Wolf Copy Share Image
We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin Copy Share Image
Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to… — Cliff Sloan Copy Share Image
In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, she did. “Do you think any of us will ever be normal again?” Rae considered this. “I’m told that somewhere around… — Julie James Copy Share Image
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The left hates the Constitution. They hate the restrictions of the Constitution on government. so when you come out and you're for… — Chuck Woolery Copy Share Image
Along with never having got round to writing down our constitution and having a monarch who legally owns all the swans, one… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Dinakaran episode has brought to the surface the vexed problem of the arbitrary and totally unsatisfactory manner of selecting and appointing… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
“The new Constitution, however, is brought to us by a Muse, ordained by the authority of the People, and established at the… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
