The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is. — Judy Martz Copy Share Image
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
If you think, what was the last really big, big accomplishment for the nation that came purely out of the legislature? It… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was… — Jonathan Gruber Copy Share Image
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote,… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived,… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off. — Gaston Caperton Copy Share Image
No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
