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
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
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
Judicial activism must be lessened, and the judiciary should do its work and let politicians work. — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari 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
It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people. — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have litigated in my private life, and I will say there are many reasons why a judge could be recused from… — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action… — Erwin Chemerinsky Copy Share Image
“Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“He was a judge which meant he was a man of the law. However, Kevin, Benjamin, Frankie, and Pastor Caine would need… — Genevieve D. Woods Copy Share Image
American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
I tend to agree with those who say that a justice's duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more… — Amy Coney Barrett Copy Share Image
“On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The Constitution became even more acceptable to the public at large after the first Congress, responding to criticism, passed a series of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The U.S. was founded by a group of political leaders who signed a document which says, "We are endowed by our Creator… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Robert Bork, at opening of Judiciary hearings: How should a judge go about finding the law? The only legitimate way, in my… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“During observance of the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987, Justice Thurgood Marshall made a public attack upon the celebration in which… — Don E. Fehrenbacher 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
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
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
All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner. — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any… — Ben Nighthorse Campbell Copy Share Image
Islamic Religious Law Fundamentalist Islam wants shari'a to replace the U.S. Constitution and fundamentally transform America. — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
Nowhere does our Constitution say we cannot say something about another's religion. Nowhere does our Constitution say we cannot say anything that… — Jeanine Pirro Copy Share Image
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Trump v. United States would become, in short order, one of the worst opinions ever issued by the Supreme Court. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste,… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
Governing through federal ultimatum grates against our history, traditions, and, most importantly, our Constitution. — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
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