Thomas Fuller Quotes
Be you never so high the law is above you.
Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English Physician & Writer, Gnomologia, 1732
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This is one of the major reasons that the relations between police and the communities they are policing is so important. Also, the style and courtesy that the IRS tax collectors exhibit is very important.
Sealed under duress and later repudiated by the King with Papal assistance.
Katyl had represented Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni suspected Islamic terrorist being held at Guantanamo who sued the Government over his detention without trial or due process and the Bush Administration’s Military Commissions. In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court ruled that the Government was violating Hamdan’s rights.
The opposition had used force to block congress and prevent him from speaking at the palace.
Explaining why his Justice Department was arguing in court that abortion protestors who interfere with abortion clinics could be criminally prosecuted. As a rabid abortion opponent, anti-choice people expected him to side with the violent protesters.
This constitution is erroneously described as the first written constitution in America. It was the first written by whites, but the Iroquois Indians had written a formal constitution over 100 years earlier. This particular clause is fascinating as part of the separation between church and state debate. In this first constitution, legislation was to be the law of the land, not religious law. However, if the legislation were silent on the issue, then religious law was to govern. Thus, neither side in the debate choose to quote it very often, as it only gives them half a victory.
Thomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published in 1662, after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen (and his many patrons).
