The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The National Mall is a special place for my wife and I. We got married on Signers Island in Constitution Gardens. It's… — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
Asked random questions about the First Amendment and how they would like to have it applied, if you believe in polls at… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you… — Kishore Chandra Deo Copy Share Image
Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't… — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers… — Rush Limbaugh 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
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
“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
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
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
The left looks at the Constitution and sees things that aren't there and then they find 'em. They look at things that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm working on "Living the Bill of Rights," and it's about people - well, it starts with Brennan and Douglas as people… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
Sam Alito replacing Justice O'Connor was a very significant change. He is much more conservative. And, as for John Roberts, he is… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
It's already a million Muslims! As long as they obey the law and respect the constitution, nobody has anything to fear. They… — Geert Wilders 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
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked… — James Madison 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
There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
There are many good reasons to fear a nuclear Iran, but also many good reasons to fear the consequences of launching a… — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That's why we have appellate judges that are more than one judge because each of us, from our life experiences, will more… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the Constitution that says the president, as a celebrity, is supposed to weigh in in every local issue that… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
The debate over judicial nominations is a debate over the judiciary itself. It is a debate over how much power unelected judges… — Orrin Hatch 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/img-quotes/d87/antonin-scalia-2855_constitution_international-law-doesn-t-show-what-the_365225.jpg)
![“[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant.” quote by Joseph Story](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/206/joseph-story-11919_clause_the-necessary-and-proper-clause-neither_1577673.png)
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