Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
The portion of a law usually found unconstitutional is the teeth — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
It's just that my constitution doesn't allow me to stand next to people who smoke. — KK Copy Share Image
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law. — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“The Supreme Court overruled their position unanimously, noting that the Clean Air Act’s standards are absolute and not subject to cost-benefit analysis.” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books. — William Matthews Copy Share Image
The Court should never be influenced by the weather of the day but inevitably they will be influenced by the climate of… — Paul A. Freund Copy Share Image
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections. — Bruce Fein Copy Share Image
I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Too many of us had to suffer at the hands of a judiciary so independent that it often acted independently of both… — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed,… — Vaughn Walker Copy Share Image
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I think if you accept the Left's premise of a living Constitution, then you accept the Left's premise of a living America,… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Sometimes Supreme Court justices surprise you with their decisions - you think they're going to vote one way, but they vote a… — Sunny Hostin Copy Share Image
We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I testify to you that God's hand has been in our destiny. I testify that freedom as we know it today is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The American Constitution was carefully rigged by the noteholders, land speculators, rum runners, and slave holders who were the Founding Fathers, so… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
“The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution. — John Engler Copy Share Image
The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes. — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
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