William Rehnquist citations (32 citations, Page 2)

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William Hubbs Rehnquist, né le 1er octobre 1924 à Milwaukee et mort le 3 septembre 2005 dans le comté d'Arlington, est un juriste américain, président de la Cour suprême des États-Unis de 1986 à 2005.

Nommé par Richard Nixon juge à la Cour suprême en 1972, il est nommé président de la juridiction par Ronald Reagan en 1986. Il est le président de la Cour suprême au mandat le plus long depuis Melville Fuller, mort en 1910. Wikipedia

✵ 1. octobre 1924 – 3. septembre 2005

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William Rehnquist: Citations en anglais

“[I]f…a society adopts a constitution and incorporates in that constitution safeguards of individual liberty, these safeguards do indeed take on a general moral rightness or goodness. They assume a general social acceptance neither because of any intrinsic worth nor because of any unique origins in someone's idea of natural justice but instead simply because they have been incorporated in a constitution by the people.”

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The Notion of a Living Constitution https://web.archive.org/web/20071031034406/http://www.claremont.org/publications/precepts/id.169/precept_detail.asp.

“I've often started off with a lawyer joke, a complete caricature of a lawyer who's been nasty, greedy, and unethical. But I've stopped that practice. I gradually realized that the lawyers in the audience didn't think the jokes were funny and the non-lawyers didn't know they were jokes.”

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William H. Rehnquist

1997 speech at University of Virginia Law School, as quoted in Marc Galanter, Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture (2006), p. 3.
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