I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool;… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
“His concern was that if there were a few rights specified in the Constitution, future generations may forget that those are just… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real,… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating… — Jack N. Rakove Copy Share Image
All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active.… — George Sand Copy Share Image
This country was taken into war based on lies about weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda's role with respect to Iraq,… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose values are… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“I have no criticism of the basic concept of irrefutable authority. Properly employed, it is the easiest, the surest, and the proper… — Rex E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Article 73 of the Constitution clearly stipulates that, subject to the Constitution, the executive power of the union shall extend to matters… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They were the human torches setting… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of… — Alberto J. Mora Copy Share Image
We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If the federal constitution is to be construed so far in connection with the state constitutions, as to leave the trial by… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image