Constitution Quote by Fred Rodell Download Open image “The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.” — Fred Rodell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constitution Inspirational Judging Judiciary Love Time
The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law. — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“After all, a Constitution is what the judges say it is. This is bound to be so when a nation adopts a Constitution, setting… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Constitution empowers the people to resolve our day's most contentious issues. When judges forget this basic truth, they do a disservice to our… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Judges are either partial to the Constitution or they aren't; they either believe that the document is perfect in its form and that rights… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content. — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
The Lawyers' trade is a trade built entirely on words. And so long as the lawyers carefully keep to themselves the key to what… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Laws are no stronger than the devotion to them by the people who live under them — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you try to come into our state and force our businesses to collect a sales tax in manner that violates our laws or… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
