Authority Quote by William H. Seward

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

— William H. Seward

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument…

— Andrew Johnson

As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.

— Gina Miller

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when…

— John Marshall

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

— Barack Obama

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal,…

— Levi Woodbury

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

— Hannah

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

— Thomas Carlyle

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.

— Benjamin Wittes

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

— Mahmoud Abbas

The rule of law is the most basic principle on which our Constitution is based.

— Prashant Bhushan