Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.
If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.
Love it or hate it, Obamacare is the law of the land. It was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Obama, declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and ratified by a majority of Americans, who reelected the president for a second t...
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.
The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.
I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.
Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress.
Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.
I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
Rufus T. Firefly: I'll see my lawyer about this as soon as he graduates from law school!
