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Constitution Quotes by Sandra Day O'Connor
- It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over…
- If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can…
- It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were…
- I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
- I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.
- The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success…
- Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that…
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- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
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- What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who… — Michele Bachmann
- Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government.… — Michael Badnarik
- I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350… — Antonio Banderas
- Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees… — Bob Barr
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams
- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams
- Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress… — Glenn Beck
- A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. — Joseph Addison