In Kashmir, rights relating to life, liberty, dignity of the people, and freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, embodied in the… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Within the constitution there is the word "referendum." You can change the constitution by referendum. But we have not yet called for… — Joseph Kabila Copy Share Image
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the legislative branch, you make the laws... and our role as judges is to interpret the law, not to inject our… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system,… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Our Constitution gave us rights as citizens of a free democratic nation, but also placed on us the responsibility to always adhere… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution… — David E. Wilkins Copy Share Image
“In a recurring theme among progressives, Croly condemned the Constitution’s separation of powers, a doctrine essential to averting centralized tyranny, as the… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“Now be it known, That I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republican… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“We are not the only country that becomes way more progressive or regressive depending on who gets into office. This is the… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States… — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's… — George Will Copy Share Image
Why am I voting for Obama? Obama, of all the candidates, is the only one of the major candidates - even more… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country.… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a… — Greg Abbott Copy Share Image
“In a way, this judgment has taken forward the jurisprudential strategy in Vishaka of reading into our constitutional law the global concepts… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
If you want a president who will upend the status quo in Washington, D.C., and appoint justices of the Supreme Court who… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Senators should not play politics by threatening filibusters and evaluating Judge Gorsuch based on what his policy preferences are or how he… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental principle that every institution must be accountable to an authority which is independent of that institution. Yet somehow,… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution… — Patrick McHenry Copy Share Image
Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it's like they're in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
My view is regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes… — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
For those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, it is a call… — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image