Substantial Quote by David Ross

We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal interpretation -…

— Diane S. Sykes

The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and…

— Anonymous

In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they…

— Raymond Kethledge

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one…

— Benjamin Cardozo

The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal…

— James Madison

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

— Alexander Hamilton

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

— Catharine MacKinnon

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power…

— Robert Bork

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by,…

— Dick Thornburgh

The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their…

— Alexander Hamilton

A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as…

— John C. Calhoun

The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by…

— Alexander Hamilton