Legal Basis Quotes

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

Americans don't want to hear the answers are privileged and off limits or they can't be provided in public or it would be inappropriate for witnesses to tell us what they know. We are talking about an attack on our democratic institutions and stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable. General Jeff Sessions acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.

I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.

I could not stay if the White House was going to engage in activities for which the Justice Department had determined that there was no legal basis.

My view is that Roe v. Wade had no basis in law or fact.

This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty.

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

In a typical whistleblower scenario where the inspector general determines a complaint to be credible and urgent, there would be no colorable legal basis for the complaint to not reach Congress.

To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

The best thing to do is muddle through and maybe, over time, create a solution of that, if someone really wanted to exit, the legal basis on which you could exit. Because right now there almost doesn't exist one.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

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

If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk.

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.