Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

In what other democracy is the President in charge of the executive and the legislature and the judiciary?

The difference between the departments undoubtedly is, that the legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law.

No other country has copied the separation and division of powers that we have.

Judicial, Legislative and Executive departments ought to be commensurate

The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.

The framers of our Constitution thought it was of critical, critical importance, in establishing three branches of government, that we have an independent judiciary. Therefore was that without that, the provisions of the constitution couldn’t be enforced

The legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law.

The legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law; but the maker of the law may commit something to the discretion of the other departments, and the precise boundary of this power is a subject of delicate and difficult inquiry.

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.

The separation of powers is about legislative powers. It isn't about discussion or words.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy, whose government is in one Assembly.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

Government is not a bottom line enterprise. You can get yourself elected ... but you can't fire the legislature if they won't do what you want.

The Supreme Court is an ideal legislature for the intelligentsia.