The law, in this country, is dead. The Supreme Court doesn't follow the Constitution, Congress doesn't follow the Constitution. The President doesn't… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned.… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their… — Kay Granger Copy Share Image
The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers who formed the United States Constitution had… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I think most presidents are amazed at the overwhelming responsibility they have when they enter office and the tremendous amount of work… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very… — Margaret Thatcher 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 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
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
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
The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The only relevant side is that of the law and the Constitution. We do great injury to the integrity of the court… — Jon Kyl Copy Share Image
Because judges may not issue advisory opinions, judicial nominees may not do so either, especially on issues likely to come before the… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
The Constitution rightly commits the authority of state elections to state legislatures, not Congress, but Congress must protect the Electoral College and… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for… — Josh Mandel Copy Share Image
There is a separation - a very clear separation - between the judiciary, the legal system, and the political system in this… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
Values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values, that I am not striking something… — Raymond Kethledge Copy Share Image
How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Judge Aquilina did what Michigan State University officials, USA Gymnastics, and the Karoyli ranch officials did not: Immediately believed the women who… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
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