Federal Courts Authority

Famous quotes containing the words federal, courts and/or authority:

“The proposed Constitution ... is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“In the courts women have no rights, no voice; nobody speaks for them. I wish woman to have her voice there among the pettifoggers. If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.”
—Sojourner Truth (1797–1883)

“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)