David Ige Quotes
I just think it gets confusing for our communities when the federal law is different from the state law.
"Hawaii Gov. David Ige discusses priorities for 2016." Associated Press, 25 Dec. 2015.
Lockwood was one of the first American politicians to advocate some uniformity in State laws such as we now have with the Uniform Commercial Code and various model laws together with much more Federal preemption.
The Chief Justice refused to accept the previously established legal precedents of other states which would limit considerably the right of the state to regulate corporations. As a result Wisconsin became one of America’s pioneers in regulating corporations which over 25 years later, Theodore Roosevelt was to do for the nation as a whole. The phrase “empire within an empire,” the translation of the Latin that Ryan used, has often been quoted to describe the power corporations had at that time.
Explaining his civil rights strategy in the 1947 "Journey of Reconciliation:"
In response to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff Act of 1832, President Jackson proclaimed:
The first Georgia legislature had been corrupt and had been bribed to sell huge tracts of land at cheap prices to four large speculators who in turn sold smaller parcels of land to thousands at huge profits. Over a decade later a new state legislature realizing the mistake that had been made, voted to invalidate all the sales and treat the land as public land. This solution had great popular support. However, the Supreme Court in upholding private rights ruled that the State legislature could not invalidate a legal private contract. More important, it established the precedent, still argued to this day.
President John Adams Alien and Sedition Acts were amongst the worst laws ever passed in America. It totally violated the First Amendment but at the time the Supreme Court had not ruled on the laws which prohibited criticizing the government. Ironically, it was Adams’s son, John Quincy Adams who finally led the repeal effort.
David Yutaka Ige is an American politician serving as the eighth governor of Hawaii. A Democrat, he previously served in the Hawaii State Senate. In the 2014 gubernatorial election, he defeated incumbent Governor Neil Abercrombie in the Democratic primary, and won the general election over Republican nominee Duke Aiona. He was reelected in 2018.
