Marion Marechal-Le Pen Quotes
We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it.
Chrisafis, Angelique. "Marion Maréchal-Le Pen: the smiling, ruthless face of the French far right." The Guardian, 4 Dec. 2015.
The dramatic thing about this quotation is that in public, the mantra of conservatives about the courts of America is that they make and change laws as opposed to just interpreting and clarifying the laws. They traditionally accuse judges who rule against their favorite positions as using the courts as an instrument of political and social change. Here a leading conservative federal jurist, who thereafter became a member of the Supreme Court, was acknowledging and advocating the courts as instruments for conservative social, economic, and political change.
They were setting of the first government of the United States according to the new Constitution.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. Even in a democracy, governments often enact laws that the public disapproves of and fails to enact others that the public wants. Most taxes are examples of the former; gun control legislation, of the latter.
At the time, this was considered a very radical point of view by the Democrats and Republicans. It was classic populism.
Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal, known as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen from 2010 to 2018, is a French politician, part of the Le Pen family, granddaughter of National Front (renamed National Rally in 2018) founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of its current leader Marine Le Pen.