Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“our Constitution can be understood by any American with average intelligence and minimal education.” — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
The fabric of our Constitution and our civilisational culture is based on tolerance. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen — John Adams Copy Share Image
Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals. — Zeno Vendler Copy Share Image
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned.… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and… — Mel White Copy Share Image
What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The Constitution says: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don’t know how many of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“That’s so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
Knowledge of constitution is the key for a holistic and integral health care, the true basis of any preventative medicine. — Vasant Lad Copy Share Image
In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail… — John Amery Copy Share Image
Our constitution enshrines the rule of law, freedom of worship and expression, we cherish these values too. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the… — Heinz Fischer Copy Share Image
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