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Framers Quotes by Sandra Day O'Connor
- Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
- 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.
- 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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- The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas
- In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in… — Abraham Lincoln
- The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum… — Walter E. Williams
- Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected… — Thurgood Marshall
- If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on… — William J. Brennan
- The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free… — Unknown Author
- The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and… — Elihu Root
- [the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy… — Fisher Ames
- The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the… — Walter E. Williams
- It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance… — Walter E. Williams