Appeals Quote by James Madison

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

— Arthur C. Clarke

If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature…

— Alexander Hamilton

It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some…

— James Madison

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

— Charles Evans Hughes

Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.

— Valery Giscard d'Estaing

The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views…

— Hugo Black

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes…

— William H. Seward

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that…

— Robert Bork

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

— Thomas Huxley

The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that…

— John Marshall

[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to…

— Alexander Hamilton

“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