“When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over. If the Court… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature. — John Adams Copy Share Image
No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our… — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'. — George Will Copy Share Image
The principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom…when you see government invading any of these realms of freedom… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake.… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I start with a concern about the growth of federal government. I start with a perspective concerned about the growth of that… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
“The Supreme Court, the final arbiter of legal conflicts, reviews, acts of the executive and Congress. With this power, the Court is… — Marites Dañguilan Vitug Copy Share Image
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion.… — Franklin T. Lambert Copy Share Image
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I want to prevent us reifying 'the Internet' as something to be preserved like some people want to preserve the American Constitution… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Executive privilege is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, and thus is a very limited principle. — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We can all live under the Constitution and all express ourself in radically different ways and not control each other. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I am an Indian, and I know what India is. I know Indian culture. I know Indian constitution and democracy. — Mammootty Copy Share Image
We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and… — Deborah K. Ross Copy Share Image
I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible. — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
Those Muslims in America's army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to. — William G. Boykin Copy Share Image
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that… — Moby Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
