Laurence Tribe Quotes

#1. We need to do something about the culture of violence.

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#2. An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

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#3. The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

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#4. The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

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#5. [The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

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#6. 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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#7. 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.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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