Areas Quote by Doug Bandow

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this…

— Antonin Scalia

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the…

— Thomas Sowell

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

— Walter E. Williams

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used…

— William O. Douglas

The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in…

— Alexander Hamilton

Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions…

— James MacGregor Burns

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

— Dan Coats

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the…

— Robert Byrd

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep…

— Nick Rahall

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

— Henry Knox