Top 1200 Constitutional Monarchy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

Abolish the monarchy. That is my populist take.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.... There should be, therefore, great resistance to ... redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that says 'x,' but no constitutional system works if it just follows what's in that written constitution and never changes. Interpretation gives it the freedom to change.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to take away the rights of property owners to carry out what we would call land reform.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact, nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, an applicant has a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits.

The more unpopular politicians are, the better people think it is to have a monarchy.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage.

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

I do have a fundamental concern about us losing control of our own destiny, and this is not just about the euro. You can expand and extend it into the whole constitutional issue. The British people have been suckered with regard to how the whole currency and constitutional issues have been sold to them.

This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would make clear that corporations aren't people, that they - the framers of the Constitution never intended to give constitutional rights to corporations, the ones that we enjoy and cherish.

The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.

I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I will obey its laws, and I will support it when it is defending our country from foreign and domestic enemies. I will vote in its elections and participate in its political debates. But I will never accept it. I aim at a restoration of constitutional and moral order.

It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era.

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along [...] there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, "independent" regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections.

Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized.

And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me. Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land.

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].

What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.

It would be a foetus of monarchy!

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.

The monarchy has almost always been unpopular.

There could be constitutional problems with executive detention if it is seen to be arbitrary. I didn't actually say that the NSW Government's proposed anti-terrorism bill was necessarily unconstitutional - that was sloppy journalism - I said that executive detention may raise constitutional problems if it is seen to be arbitrary as being an invasion of the judicial function.

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

The big issue is this incremental whittling away of our constitutional rights, our most important constitutional rights, including freedom of speech. This is something that we really have to put our foot down on, and we have to fight it at every step of the way.

If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded to develop a system in which - as he put it - power would be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, the more responsible set of men and who recognize the need to protect the rights of property owners. That's why in the constitutional system, the most powerful part of the whole system is the senate.

A lot of people would like to see the monarchy scaled down.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.