Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law. — Lamar S. Smith Copy Share Image
The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments. — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
You have to let the people vote when it comes to a new constitution. — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have… — Bill Lee Copy Share Image
“When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over. If the Court… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not. — George W. Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend… — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you… — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
I would hope that the Senate would do its job and confirm the nominee that President [Barack] Obama has sent to them.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“In sum, part I has shown that administrative law revives prerogative legislation, together with the prerogative of suspending and dispensing with law—thus… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality… — George Washington Copy Share Image
All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a… — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
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