Legislation Quote by William O. Douglas Download Open image “We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.” — William O. Douglas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Legislation Legislature Legislature Weigh Super Legislature Wisdom Wisdom Legislation
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential,… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Congress should not be rushing legislation that has dire consequences for our nation and its future generations. — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures. — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole -… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
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