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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new… — Barton Gellman
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS. — Barton Gellman
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control. — Barton Gellman
Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. — Thomas P.M. Barnett
Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple. — Thomas P.M. Barnett
I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers. — Dakota Goyo
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see. — Dan Colen
The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a… — John James Audubon
China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing… — Jose Rizal
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness. — Sheri L. Dew
The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of… — John Marshall
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those… — John Marshall
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope… — Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as… — Roger B. Taney
It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of… — Roger B. Taney
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary… — Levi Woodbury
Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse. — Samuel Freeman Miller
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and… — Samuel Freeman Miller
Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative… — Samuel Freeman Miller
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to… — Samuel Freeman Miller

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