Approach Quote by John Roberts

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering…

— Robert Bork

The issue of the American justice system is so much broader than any one party, or any area of the country, or any one…

— Chris Hayes

“the country made itself stronger, more egalitarian, more effective in the world precisely during the mid-twentieth-century period when jurists were most willing to seek…

— Michael Waldman

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough…

— Howard Zinn

“American democracy rests on a foundation of competing tensions among local, state, and federal laws,”

— Ted Koppel

There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship, and I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together…

— Alan Keyes

“Constitutionalism as a guiding political tendency will require careful and thoughtful development, as did jurisprudential originalism. But its wide appeal and philosophical depth make…

— Charles Krauthammer

Unless there is a strong movement of citizens, who are the consumers of justice, we are hardly likely to see any serious judicial reforms…

— Prashant Bhushan

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

— Arundhati Roy

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and…

— James Q. Wilson

“The Anglo-American tradition of constitutional thinking should be understood in this way, as addressing the question of how to limit the power of government,…

— Roger Scruton

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan