The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.' — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution? — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to… — William Rainey Harper Copy Share Image
Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We've had many times when a judge makes decisions that are inaccurate, and that's why we have an appeal processes — Bernard C. Parks Copy Share Image
“Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Constitution is no longer worth the paper it's written on.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies. The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There's simply no question under "The Constitution," and, frankly, under federal law, that the president of the United States has the authority,… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing… — William Barr Copy Share Image
They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
“Of course we can establish constitutional checks and balances, but those won’t mean a thing unless citizens make sure the safeguards are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors… — David O. McKay 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
The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image