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“In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.”

Mind Matter Law Political Nations Concern Bills Clinton Officials Consideration Life And Death Law Enforcement Enforcement

Book:The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House

Source: The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House

“We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns.”

Way Needs Believe Law Order Causes Religious Security Concern Safety Institutions Balanced Sensitivity Observance Accommodations

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.”

“The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.”

People Want Years Lasts Law Impossible Worst Concern Prison Democratic Rate Merit Proven Ambiguity Ambiguous Commonwealth Incarceration Democratic Leadership

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.”

Men Way Wells Kind Law Evil Individual Community Justice Results Principles Taught Concern Fundamentals All Kinds Judgement Strict Affliction Moses Fundamental Principles

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.”

“Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set of laws for governing an empire, prescribed death for anyone who harbored a fugitive or otherwise helped a slave to escape. The relationship between the law and bondage goes back even farther: Indeed, the oldest extant legal documents don't concern the sale of land, houses, or even animals, but slaves.”

Knows Firsts States Form Law House Nations Animal Land Concern Slavery Slave Code Empires Documents Bondage Governance Governing Fugitive

Book:The Culture of Make Believe

Source: The Culture of Make Believe

“Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.”

Men Humans Children Reason Reality Law Spirit Poor Moral Wife Subjects Materials Shapes Concern Pressure Misery Eras Autonomy Cunning Workshops Supplements Introverted

Author:Max Horkheimer

“"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account this richer meaning, the Establishment Clause, in banning laws that concern religion, especially prohibits those that pay homage to religion.”

Mean Law Pay Atheism Concern Accounts Regard Positive Atheism Establishment Reverence Good Will Homage Clauses Establishment Clause

Author:John Paul Stevens