Laurence Tribe
Laurence Tribe
Laurence Henry Tribeis a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. He also works with the firm Massey & Gail LLP on a variety of matters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth10 October 1941
CountryUnited States of America
flowing fought free inherent power revolution
That free flowing inherent power is the very thing we fought a revolution against.
history moment true
No treatise, in my sense of that term, can be true to this moment in our constitutional history - to its conflicts, innovations, and complexities.
rights government people
[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.
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An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
strong gun government
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.
clever book vision
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an extremely clever but stunningly reductionist argument that the whole Constitution is really designed to protect private property... Can a constitution reflecting as diverse an array of visions and aspirations as ours really be reducible to such as sadly single-minded vision as that?
progress liberty fit
There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.
power prevent violation
Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.
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The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'
We need to do something about the culture of violence.
believe convincing next nor phase principle
I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.