No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge. — Don Willett Copy Share Image
The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution, — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Judges make tough decisions on child abuse, divorce, property disputes, drunk driving, domestic violence and other issues that should be free from… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
I'm a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir,"… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“When Rob J. had prepared for citizenship he’d studied the United States Constitution and marveled at its provisions. Now he saw that… — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
“In the United States, at the present time, we are trying to make an undemocratic constitution the vehicle of democratic rule. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“it was not until 1937 that Justice Curdozo of the US Supreme Court formulated for the first time the concept of fundamental… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
“The constitution which emerged from the Assembly after six months of debate—it was passed on July 31, 1919, and ratified by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not just a system, it is an idea that we all have value.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury-men may dine — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel? — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
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