#courts

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

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If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts? ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people. ↗

— Larry Craig

#constitutional #courts #desecration #flag #issue

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#courts #explanation #find #mindset #place

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #life #love #marriage #matrimony

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. ↗

— William Weld

#courts #dangerous #government #least #our

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

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Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

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