Law Making Quotes

Judges should interpret the laws according to what they say, not according to what the judges wish they would say. Judges are supposed to interpret the laws; they are not supposed to make them.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

For me, arguably, the European Parliament is the best-functioning European institution. They are extremely good at law-making; they're extremely good at finding compromise under pressure.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

The few practice lawful plunder upon the many, a common practice where the right to participate in the making of law is limited to a few persons.

As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.

An investigation in which the processes of law-making and law-evaluating are submerged entirely in exposure of individual behavior—in adjudication, of a sort, through the exposure process—is outside the constitutional pale of congressional inquiry.

The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.

In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.

Once we realize that government doesn't work, we will stop dreaming that this or that social problem can be solved by passing a law - or by creating a new government program - or by electing someone who will make Washington more efficient or cost-conscious.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Our laws to be wholesome need not be enacted in a palace.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

The difference between the departments undoubtedly is, that the legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.

The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.

[Legislators] can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws and place it in the hands of others.

Legislative proposals are not merely vehicles for expressing policy, they are devices for getting policy decided.