I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how,… — Diane Wood Copy Share Image
At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image
It is not democracy to send in billions of dollars to push regime change overseas. It isn't democracy to send in the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and… — Rocky Anderson Copy Share Image
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws .… — Noah Webster 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
If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“A constitution under which the people could actually govern themselves should make a congress, composed of a single house, the chief instrument… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving… — Sheila Jackson Lee Copy Share Image
What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow… — Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
We've gone down a road to which we don't have the answers for. That's why we have the schizophrenic decisions coming out… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
I've had times in the past where I wanted to give up acting, get my head out of the arts because it… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution was meant to be universal, not just something that only America would observe. The principle of defending liberty for… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that,… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
If people are taking my book seriously and organizing, getting into office, caring about the constitution, and not waiting for someone else… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
As a candidate, Trump could make outlandish statements with little regard for their Constitutional implications. As President, he is pledged to respect… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that Republican control of the Senate is the only way to preserve the Constitutional integrity of our Supreme… — Todd Wilcox Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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