[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
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,'… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Congress has a constitutional right to help decide and limit how the country uses its military power. But to assert this right,… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from… — John Adams Copy Share Image
While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The excuse of divided government is over: they have the House and the Senate as well; they have the state legislatures; they… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
My campaign filed the bill back in 2002 in the Democratic legislature, 85% Democratic, they could have prevented any possibility of a split vote. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual,… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
One of the biggest responsibilities the legislature holds every year is allocating our taxpayers' hard-earned money responsibly and efficiently. — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
In the legislative branch, you make the laws... and our role as judges is to interpret the law, not to inject our… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
There's value in checks and balances. And there's value in having independence in the governor's office with respect to the legislature. — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions,… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
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