Constitutional Law Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,…
— Gore Vidal
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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person,…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty…
— Lysander Spooner
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If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the…
— Byron White
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We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and…
— Sharron Angle
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Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.
— Erwin Griswold
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As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice…
— Bernhard Schlink
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There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and…
— Matt Damon
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The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee, as well as…
— Heber J. Grant
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And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?
— Arlen Specter
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I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
— Barack Obama
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
— Zach Galifianakis
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Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they got detained over there did something really unforgivable.…
— Stephen Colbert
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If nothing else came out of all of this debacle over Obamacare, one thing that should is a class-action lawsuit against the University of Chicago…
— Louie Gohmert
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The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.
— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
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I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so…
— Frank Scott
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The Constitution...expressly recognizes the right to hold slaves as property in states where slavery exists. This, then, is not a question of general morality, affecting…
— James Buchanan
Who Wrote These Constitutional Law Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Constitutional Law Quotes as follows: