A. E. Dick Howard Quotes

• This court certainly doesn’t lack self-confidence. It’s a conservative activism for the most part, but the justices aren’t afraid to decide where the legal lines are drawn.

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• We’re talking about a constitution that is in its third century. That’s really quite remarkable among any of the nations of the world. It suggests an essential stability of our political system that many may envy but not many can emulate.

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• In many ways, the U.S. Supreme Court remains the paradigm.

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• They are not often reversed. I think that’s partly because the 4th Circuit is relatively conservative as the Supreme Court is coming to be.

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• They are willing to test the boundaries of present U.S. Supreme Court doctrine.

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• Because the issues debated at the convention were very contentious and very divisive, it’s easy to imagine that people of lesser stature could have foundered, that the whole enterprise might have died

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• Ideology aside, it’s going to be difficult to run the court any better than he did. We will look back on the Rehnquist court as one of the smoothest in the court’s history.

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• It can’t be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.

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• I think the document has to be read from a commonsense perspective. The constitution is not a suicide pact. In a sense, that has to be the answer.

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• Each ruling may be correct. But it seems to me that the cumulative effect of these decisions makes it increasingly difficult for the president to operate in a separation of powers context.

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A. E. Dick Howard (10)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Professor

About

A. E. Dick Howard is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Professor Howard is a graduate of the University of Richmond and received his law degree from the University of Virginia. Professor Howard is the author of a number of books, articles, and monographs.

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