Robert Bork Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.

  Robert Bork

  School, Thinking, Law

• The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

  Robert Bork

  Promise, Judicial Review, Constitution

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

• Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

  Robert Bork

  Men, Ideas, Judging

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

• The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution

  Robert Bork

  Constitution

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

• Americans revere both the Constitution and an independent Court that applies the document's provisions. The Court has done many excellent things in our history, and few people are willing to see its power broken. The difficulty with all proposals to respond to the Court when it behaves unconstitutionally is that they would create a power to destroy the Court's essential work as well.

  Robert Bork

  Independent, People, Broken

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

• Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted the courts to political judging will have gained nothing for themselves but will have destroyed a great and essential institution. . . . There are only two sides. Either the Constitution and statutes are law, which means their principles are known and control judges, or they are malleable texts that judges may rewrite to see that particular groups or political causes win.

  Robert Bork

  Mean, Winning, Views

• When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.

  Robert Bork

  People, Judging, Democracy

• [The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

  Robert Bork

  Philosophy, Want Something, Gathering

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