The Constitution is clear; appropriations powers sit with the legislature. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled? — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin Copy Share Image
In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Judges decide upon copyright law. They decide upon trademark law. They decide upon scientific issues. They decide upon very complex technical issues… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
The Constitution created a system of checks and balances designed to prevent the president from becoming a king or a dictator. Our… — Jessica Tarlov Copy Share Image
You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's anything you absolutely have to have, it must… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Our forefathers bequeathed to us far more than a republic. They willed to us an enduring Constitution that incorporates more thought and… — James D. Best Copy Share Image
A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe in the principles that built America, I believe in the Constitution. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
There is one kind of judge. There is an independent judge under our Constitution. — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
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