Constitution Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon…

— Alexander Hamilton

Each justice enters the Supreme Court possessing a record of opinion by which he or she is measured, and that without threat of election…

— Dana Loesch

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment…

— Byron White

The Constitution has to be supreme.

— Nawaz Sharif

The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of the Government,…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make…

— Mike Huckabee

On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others…

— James Madison

The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The Judges cannot make new law by new decisions; they do not assume a power of that kind: they only endeavour to declare what…

— Daniel Hannan

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon…

— Alexander Hamilton

The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.

— Ayelet Shaked