Legal Change Quotes

In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

If people want to change the law, they should vote so that we can appoint pro-life judges. I believe the law should be changed.

The law is always in transition.

If you want to change a law, you have to pass a law. Presidents don't write laws. Congress writes laws.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution

For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account. It was because of the Human Rights Act that this began to change.

They who make laws may without doubt amend or repeal them.

One way for Constitutional change is the fact that [Supreme Court] justices are mortal.

The power of the people ... to make and alter their laws at pleasure is the greatest security for liberty and justice.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

Constitutional reform is exasperatingly slow.

Israel's Supreme Court is one of the best in the world, and I think that it should stay that way; I don't want to weaken it, I just want to change its approach.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

Readiness to change from old law to new law enfeebles the power of the law.

We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities.

It’s a jolt to the legal system when a previous decision is overruled.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

Courts and judges are very slow to change. They are reactive organizations.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.