Quotes about Jurisdictional Boundaries

Robert Reich

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.

United States

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the states in which they reside.

The 14th Amendment made the Black slaves and their families all citizens as most people know, but it had two other important aspects. It prohibited the individual states from deciding who who was and was not a citizen of the country and the state. In addition, it guaranteed that anyone born in the United States was a citizen regardless of the status of his parents—citizens or not, illegal immigrants or legal.

Al Gore

No controlling legal authority

Salmon P. Chase

When a slave leaves the jurisdiction of a state he ceases to be a slave, because he continues to be a man and leaves behind him the law which made him a slave

He lost the case. When a young lawyer, Chase represented many fugitive slaves, often without compensation.

Carrie Lam

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

John Marshall

The line has not been exactly drawn which separates those important subjects, which must be entirely regulated by the legislature itself, from those of less interest, in which … power may be given to those who are to act under such general provisions to fill up the details.

Thomas Jefferson

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

Learned Hand

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

See Montesquieu {607909} for an earlier, similar view.

Asha Rangappa

Under the dual sovereignty principle, the Fifth Amendment's prohibition on double jeopardy - which prevents the government from trying someone twice for the same crime - doesn't apply if the second trial is by a different 'sovereign' - in this case, the state.

James Comey

To accomplish its mission, the FBI relies heavily upon its law enforcement and intelligence partners around the nation and around the globe. By combining our resources and our collective expertise, we are able to investigate national security threats that cross both geographical and jurisdictional boundaries.

Visigoths

We both permit and desire that the laws of foreign nations shall be studied for the sake of the useful knowledge that may be obtained from them, but we reject and prohibit their employment in the business of the courts.

This is a principle that most American jurists would applaud, with the exception of the very far right that does not even want foreign law consulted by the courts even for “useful knowledge” that they might contain. This is the most formalized and sophisticated compendium of laws of the so-called “barbaric peoples” of Europe. The compilation was in many ways a documentation of the traditional laws of the Visgoths that had evolved over hundreds of years.

Anonymous

All sovereign States are juridically equal among themselves

Act of Chapultepec. The United States was among the signers.

Blaise Pascal

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

Stephen Harper

It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction.

Grover Cleveland

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Jurisdictional Boundaries Quotes