Law Creation Quotes

One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.

A law is simply a reflection of the momentary perception of self-interest by a majority of a legislative body.

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

People assume that the executive branch has more power than it actually has. Only the legislative branch can create the laws; the executive branch cannot create the laws. So, if the executive branch tries to create a branch one side or the other... you go back to the founders of the nation. They set up a system that ensures that it doesn't happen.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

[Legislators] can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws and place it in the hands of others.

Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don't need a new law.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

Much as criticism can and has been made as to how E.U. law has been created, there is much in it that affects our daily lives for the better and is welcomed by many without them being necessarily aware of where it comes from.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.