As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view,… — Byron White Copy Share Image
Roe v. Wade used raw judicial power to overturn the democratically passed laws in every state in the country and remove state… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“A jury is always a more orthodox body than any defendant brought before it; for blacks it is usually a whiter group,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so… — John Adams Copy Share Image
On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
By creating a prosecutor who is overseen over by a court, they are melding executive and judicial power in a way that… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not… — William Batchelder Greene 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
A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
“and line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as… — William J. Bennett Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is a mighty document, but the rights it secures require constant vigilance - and the unwavering voices of justices who… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
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