Judiciary must be encouraged to find ways and means to regulate its own affairs - consistent with the spirit of the Constitution. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws… — 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
The Massachusetts constitution was written much later than the other revolutionary state constitutions, and thus it avoids some of the earlier mistakes.… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary. — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
If you believe that through putting the judiciary under political control you can make it a better judiciary, you are wrong, and… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I'm concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people's lives, especially in… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
As to whether I will ever get out, it will obviously take some large measures of public opinion because the judiciary system… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image