The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about. — Mike Lowry Copy Share Image
“That is the point of all this. To make you terrified of a world where you do not rule. Security and justice… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We forget that the main constitutional responsibility of the MLAs and MPs that we vote for is law making, and oversight of… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way,… — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image