Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution. — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The United States Constitution only gives the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution. — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted. — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
What's sad is that nobody knows the constitution of the ecosystem that has just been destroyed. Is it an important future food?… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision… — Kate O'Regan Copy Share Image
Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“The danger of an administrative return to an extralegal regime becomes particularly concrete when one recognizes the potential for evasion. Administrative law… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people. — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.' — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Judicial activism must be lessened, and the judiciary should do its work and let politicians work. — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
A judge is supposed to be able to make a decision, and when you make a decision, very often one party -… — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
In order to keep the judiciary independent of the executive, the constitution provided impeachment as the only method for disciplining errant judges. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man. — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I think judges have to have the ability to put aside their personal views and rule on the facts of the case… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
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