Courses Quote by Learned Hand

If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to…

— William Blackstone

Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be…

— James Madison

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many…

— Andrew Johnson

The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but…

— Andrew Jackson

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

— John Marshall

I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide…

— Sam Brownback

there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of…

— James Madison

Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon…

— Alexander Hamilton

Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has…

— Joseph Sobran

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