There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness. — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is,… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
The Constitution is quite straightforward about how to change the Constitution, but it takes a lot. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about. — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession,… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
I have very deep concern about the legacy of the Rehnquist court and its efforts to restrict congressional authority to enact legislation… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
“… I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people … are the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the… — Peter Camejo Copy Share Image
The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States... specifically states the Congress shall write legislation for immigration policy in the United States. — John Carter Copy Share Image
Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one. — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
As prime minister of Iraq, I am required to act in accordance with the Constitution to protect all of the Iraqi people… — Haider al-Abadi Copy Share Image
The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they… — Michele Landis Dauber Copy Share Image
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative… — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation -… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
America is a nation founded by immigrants and built on the ideal that anyone can be an American if he or she… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
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