The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“It is essential that we always repeat: we the people, we the people, we the people.” — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. — Byron White Copy Share Image
Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written. — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary,… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose,… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
There should be some other provisions in the Constitution whereby if the Government is not functioning well, it can be dealt with.… — Nawaz Sharif Copy Share Image
[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. [It] says what the states can’t do to you. [It] says what the… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
The Court's legitimacy arises from the source of its authority - which is, of course, the Constitution - and is best preserved… — Diane S. Sykes Copy Share Image
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
“Hamilton then picked up a slim volume on the table and turned it over in his hands. “Ah, this is the constitution,”… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“The framers were wise in their generation and wanted to do the very best possible to secure their own liberty and independence,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“No one knows the powers that are latent in his constitution. Called forth by imminent dangers, our efforts frequently exceed our most… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution… — Joseph Estrada Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree. — Sr?a Trifkovic Copy Share Image
If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day it’s waste paper. — Robert F. Williams Copy Share Image
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
![“[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today.” quote by Antonin Scalia](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d87/antonin-scalia-2855_constitution_international-law-doesn-t-show-what-the_365225.jpg)
![“generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. [It] says what the states can’t do to you. [It] says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.” quote by Thom Hartmann](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d9d/thom-hartmann-13946_constitution_generally-the-constitution-is-a-charter_1099776.png)
![“Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not…” quote by Eustace Mullins](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/329/eustace-mullins-25201_amendments_thus-these-three-amendments-to-the-const_1842281.jpg)
