There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge. — Don Willett Copy Share Image
The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution, — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not just a system, it is an idea that we all have value.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel? — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury-men may dine — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A Judicial Bureau of Investigation under an independent Judicial Complaints Commission, should be set up to investigate complaints against judges. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have the Second Amendment, but no privilege or right under the U.S. Constitution is unlimited. — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In terms of personalities - I don't care about the personalities, I want leadership that's in favor of my principles: free markets,… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the… — Philip M. Breedlove Copy Share Image
It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
Those who proposed the Constitution knew, and those who ratified the Constitution also knew that this is...a limited government tied down to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
We are living out the liberal dream of our founders. The Constitution, the very liberal document - we have gone beyond English… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We need to have a broad debate so that the new Chilean constitution is representative of everyone. I am convinced that it… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it. — Horatio Seymour Copy Share Image