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
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
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass 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
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
[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
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Where have we come as a country, when loving the Constitution, being a patriot, loving Jesus is extremist? Let me tell you… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
“As is well known, what characterizes both the Fascist and Nazi regimes is that they allowed the existing constitutions (the Albertine Statute… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The United States Constitution turned 225 years old in 2012. It is the central document of American history and politics. From all… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“In no other nation under heaven could the Church have been organized and gone forward as we have in this nation. The… — George Albert Smith Copy Share Image
It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of… — Dennis Prager 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
I won't let anybody, even the most powerful person in this country, trample our values or our Constitution. And no matter who's… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
Mainstream America, in the long run, will always stand for highly qualified, impartial judges and for a fair process and for senators… — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
When I was sworn in as a judge of the court of appeals, I took an oath. I put my hand on… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
If I have not decided to step down, it does not mean that I do not want to step down but because… — Suharto Copy Share Image
It has always been accepted, even in pronouncements by the Supreme Court that the Court and its judgements can be subjected to… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
While the writers of the U.S. Constitution could not have predicted Trump's exact wrongdoing, they were able to imagine a scenario in… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
If the goal is to significantly curtail the number of guns - or even slow its growth, which is the purported goal… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution,… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
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