The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Constitution protects freedom of speech, but we must expect more from our elected officials to heal divisions in our country and… — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country;… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“There is good reason to believe that the administration of justice is infected by predictable incoherence in several domains. The evidence is… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The justice system is a foundation of our existence as a democratic society. I will not be the one to soften its… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures… The separate… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great,… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the… — Byron White Copy Share Image
I've reported in countries where leaders not only complain about a critical press, but also try to shut it down, throwing reporters… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
Congress actually authorized the printing and payment for a Bible. That illustrates the high regard that the Bible was held in early… — Steve Green Copy Share Image
Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think this president has so badly abused his power, breached his trust in remarkable ways with our Congress, with the American… — Rocky Anderson Copy Share Image
“But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one… — Richard A. Posner Copy Share Image
[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“Privacy as a fundamental right allows a person to prohibit, regulate, and take other actions against any actual and/or foreseeable intrusions into… — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
The Army is a big mixing bowl, and we know that we wear one uniform. We identify with one set of Army… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
Judges should always behave judicially by adjudicating, never politically by legislating. I leave policy to policymakers. They're preeminent, but they're not omnipotent.… — Don Willett Copy Share Image
The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on… — Bill McCollum Copy Share Image
If I were a Democrat, I'd siphon the power of states to the federal government. I'd ignore the Constitution and prevent states… — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think all members of Congress are very concerned about the fact that, while we want to see our law enforcement agencies… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think justice Scalia is really the gold standard of what a justice should be. Somebody, regardless of how he feels on… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
“The Judges cannot make new law by new decisions; they do not assume a power of that kind: they only endeavour to… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
America's founders were clear that the Constitution established a federal government of few and defined powers. It cannot regulate any activity it… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
The cliché is what are the qualifications for a federal Court of Appeals judge is somebody who knew a senator once. I… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
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