Achieve Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

— Ted Cruz

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

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

After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts…

— Mike DeWine

“Wilson argued further, as he had to, that the federal courts are not bound to the Constitution. “The weightiest import of the matter is…

— Mark R. Levin

“How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating in its…

— Jack N. Rakove

The American Founding Fathers gave us courts, independent jurists. They left room for civil society, which meant that citizens could directly associate in order…

— Condoleezza Rice

Too many of us had to suffer at the hands of a judiciary so independent that it often acted independently of both the basic…

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution…

— Gerald R. Ford

You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal…

— Sam Brownback

Our Constitution framers were men and women with great foresight. They understood the majesty of the rule of law, and of rule by laws.

— Ram Nath Kovind