American - Lawyer | October 10, 1941 -
I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.
Laurence Tribe
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The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
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We need to do something about the culture of violence.
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The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'
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Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.
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There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.
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