Quotes About Law

Busing, affirmative action, and abortion are but the three most glaring areas in which the justices have made law from the bench, with no constitutional license to do so.

As Wilson outlined the concept, the Court would sit as a permanent constitutional convention, continually making and remaking the law, to adapt, in a kind of Darwinian evolution, to changing circumstances. It would make up law, in Chief Justice Earl Warren's words, according to "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society."4

Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's interpretation of the Constitution.

The human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point that Paul grasped. And that is the reason for the Colossians' gratitude. The battle has been won.

The closest echoes to this double command are found in 1 Maccabees 2.68. Mattathias is telling his sons, especially Judas, to get ready for revolution. 'Pay back to the gentiles what is due to them,' he says, 'and keep the law's commands.

What God was doing through the Torah, in Israel, was to gather "Sin" together into one place, so that it could then be condemned.

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! —Psalm 119:1

I have faith in the jury system.

The vast majority of women, however, have to locate a specialist in abortion, an illegal practitioner who is willing to take the risks of breaking the law.

Nothing like this had occurred in Virginia before. Slavery had been slow to take hold, with only around 150 slaves counted in 1640, and barely 1,000 out of a total population of 26,000 in 1670. Massachusetts and English possessions in the Caribbean, not Virginia, were the first colonies to codify slave law.

Law is not theater. Before we write laws reflecting gaudy and dramatic feelings, we must be very sure we understand the difference.

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If moral knowledge is impossible, then we are left with only political and legal measures to coerce people into compliance.

What bioethicists debate eventually becomes law, enforced through the courts. This is already happening in countries that have legalized assisted suicide.

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Andre had violated the international laws of war He had behaved as a common spy. Death by hanging was the usual punishment.

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

Men went by ways of old Gods or not of any Gods, but by the violent wills of kings who were their own law.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

I hope we have not sunk so low in American society that plain, simple, justice according to the Constitution must be regarded as a perk. Police

Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever.