I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers.… — Anonymous 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
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 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
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
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
I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And… — Sallust 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
Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George -… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the… — P. Sathasivam Copy Share Image
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A court's assessment of an agency's compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency's policy is good or whether… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“I believe that the United States government was set up with the help of God, and it is the closest government in… — Gary Hansen Copy Share Image
If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The consensus for a strong, independent Executive arose from the Framers' experience in the Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation. They… — William Barr Copy Share Image
It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
The question is, and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer, is that human life a person under the constitution.… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“What had driven the litigation-loving Bengali to turn his gentle green valley into a pocket edition of hell?' John Younie, the judge… — Manoshi Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
