Our Constitution requires that the accused be presumed innocent before trial, thus granting all citizens the right to a bail hearing, where… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
While the president is to nominate that individual [to Supreme Court], we in the Senate must provide our advice and consent. This… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Americans revere both the Constitution and an independent Court that applies the document's provisions. The Court has done many excellent things in… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Ask a fellow if he favors organized prayer in the public schools. If he says 'No' he's a liberal. If he says… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Constitution is designed to inconvenience one person from taking us to war. War is a very solemn and sobering and extraordinary… — Ron Dellums Copy Share Image
Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus. — Pat Swindall Copy Share Image
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country. — Peter Pace Copy Share Image
The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
I've heard the government say many nice things. But it did make some gestures, like writing human rights protection into the constitution… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico. — Eduardo Bhatia Copy Share Image
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide… — Joe Miller Copy Share Image
