The Iraqi constitution is clear in two articles: one says that Iraq is united, and the second one prevents any legislation or… — Haider al-Abadi Copy Share Image
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“After all, a Constitution is what the judges say it is. This is bound to be so when a nation adopts a… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“And foe-of-convenience, the United States, barely the hope of the world, guilty of torture, helpless before its sacred text conceived in an… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government,… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The Constitution says the President shall nominate, not maybe he could, maybe he can't, he shall nominate. Implicit in the Constitution is… — Joe Biden 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
There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with… — Janet Reno 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
We need to have a broad debate so that the new Chilean constitution is representative of everyone. I am convinced that it… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk… — Norman Thomas 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
Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been a guardian of the protections the Constitution provides the American people. She's come to provide balance… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view,… — Byron White Copy Share Image
Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Because I understand the Constitution, I understand democratic ideals and our parliamentary system, it's an easy transition to then say 'OK, what… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not against other cultures, but I believe what the Germans call a "leitkultur", a dominant culture that we should have, even… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and… — Richard A. Posner Copy Share Image
“Today, the entire nation has been indoctrinated to go along with whatever the Supreme Court says, regardless of whether it is right… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
I find it hard to believe that Senators or the American public will classify Sotomayor as unqualified, particularly given the thin credentials… — David Stras Copy Share Image
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The public disclosure of assets by judges, though a welcome first step, is certainly not the end all of the serious problem… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The only way the avoid a constitution crisis, and I'm not saying we're there yet, is to reassure the public that the… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
It is impossible to swear an oath to the German Basic Law without realizing that our constitution is among the most liberal… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong -… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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