America Quote by H. L. Mencken

Constitutions are violated, and it would be absurd to expect the federal government to enforce the Constitution against itself. If the very federal judges…

— John Taylor

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential…

— Margaret Thatcher

The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce… The result will be an enforced inability of the states to…

— Alan Keyes

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place…

— Thomas Jefferson

What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the…

— Michele Bachmann

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in…

— Byron White