I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something. — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
“In America, the government is accountable to the people, not the other way around,” says a constitutional law scholar sympathetic to the… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
Before I was elected to Congress, I litigated constitutional law cases in federal courts for nearly 20 years, and I found that… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
It was important for the Supreme Court to say it’s a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone… — David Boies Copy Share Image
And my whole life I've been focused on questions of anti-corruption laws, on constitutional law, and it's essential that the power of… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where… — Frank Scott Copy Share Image
Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
As a citizen of Ireland I have more sovereignty over our government. Because citizens now have more ways of holding the Irish… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment.… — John Didcott Copy Share Image
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable… — Byron White Copy Share Image
“In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property… — Rose Wilder Lane 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
“In a way, this judgment has taken forward the jurisprudential strategy in Vishaka of reading into our constitutional law the global concepts… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Look it over some time. 'T is fine spoort if ye don't care f r checkers. Some say it laves th' flag… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
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