Stephen Breyer Quotes
I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.
The President was threatened with impeachment by the Russian parliament.
This phrase was coined by Meiklejohn
The State Constitutional ratification convention for Constitutional amendments is
The issue of how the federal judiciary would be selected was one of the more hotly debated issues during the Constitutional Convention.
President George W. Bush initiated an invasion of Iraq based on the fact that Iraq was developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. After the invasion however, there were none of these weapons found and much evidence that there were not any at that point in time. By the time Congress, the body which is supposed to declare war, found out that the reason for the war was bogus, it was too late. We had already occupied the country and were in the midst of a civil war. The President either acted on bad intelligence or wanted to invade Iraq for other reasons and history may finally tell us which, but Fein sees the problem as too much secrecy in the executive branch.
Originally it was published in Boston under the name “A Columbian Patriot.” The “principles to which she referred were the principles set out in our Constitution of 1787.
Stephen Gerald Breyer is an American lawyer, jurist, and legal scholar who is serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton on May 17, 1994, and has served since August 3, 1994.
