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The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation. -- Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something. -- Zach Galifianakis
Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution. -- Karen DeCrow
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution. -- Byron White
If nothing else came out of all of this debacle over Obamacare, one thing that should is a class-action lawsuit against the University of Chicago Law School for people that had Obama as their constitutional law professor. -- Louie Gohmert
I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution. -- Barack Obama
Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives. -- Spencer W. Kimball
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. -- Alexander Hamilton
Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress? -- Arlen Specter
Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law. -- Erwin Griswold
This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added. -- Robert H. Jackson
Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters. -- Paul Bloom
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... so far from thinking that a slaveholder is bound by the immoral and unconstitutional laws of the Southern States, we hold thathe is solemnly bound as a man, as an American, to break them, and that immediately and openly ... -- Angelina Grimke
There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve. -- Jonathan Turley
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who'd rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents. -- Bill Moyers
I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well. -- Frank Scott
The Supreme Court of the United States of America will never under any circumstances allow anyone to be stripped of their citizenship because they burned the American flag. And if you don't believe that, you haven't been reading constitutional law for the past seventy years. -- Joe Scarborough
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers. -- Bernhard Schlink
As a citizen of Ireland I have more sovereignty over our government. Because citizens now have more ways of holding the Irish government to account, not just under Irish constitutional law, but under the European system, at Strasbourg and Brussels. This, I believe, is the benefit for individual citizens. -- Mary Robinson
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar. -- Rose Wilder Lane
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional. -- Antonin Scalia
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. -- Alan Bullock
In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law. -- Ken Starr
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. -- Charles Krauthammer
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth. -- Paul Johnson
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. -- Ted Cruz
The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed. -- Jeffrey Chiesa
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge. -- Robert Bork
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. -- Michele Bachmann
While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage. -- John Boehner
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture. -- Orrin Hatch
So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment. -- Jack Kingston
We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. -- Abraham Lincoln
The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded. -- Alexander Hamilton
If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress. -- Walter E. Williams
There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise. -- Bill Vaughan
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant. -- Martin Van Buren

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