Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They're limited to the Constitution and the law.
Mark R. LevinTags: justice jurisprudence constitution supreme-court foreign-law limiation policymakers
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots
Joseph J. EllisTags: interpretation constitution
I love my country, not my government.
Jesse VenturaTags: liberty freedom nationalism patriotism patriotic government totalitarianism police-state constitution ron-paul bill-of-rights despotism libertarianism allegiance patriot jesse-ventura martial-law
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John CiardiTags: constitution
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.
Jeff CooperTags: morality freedom evil safety tyranny law guns arms good-and-evil constitution protection moral bill-of-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment gun-control gun-rights gun righteous gunslinger gun-ammo gun-laws rifle rifles right-to-keep-and-bear-arms
in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in the long-term interest of the state or its citizens to flout those procedures at home or associate too closely overseas with the enemies of your founding ideals.
Tony JudtTags: ideals wrong right constitution
...the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
John MarshallTags: constitution marbury-v-madison
A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.
Jill LeporeTags: politics united-states americans constitution
The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the debates—the course of events—over more than two centuries. It is not easy, but it is everyone’s.
Jill LeporeTags: politics democracy united-states meaning government interpretation constitution
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.
Margaret AtwoodTags: dystopia government enemy constitution
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