“Riots are communities defining what counts as police brutality and to set the limits of authority. It is here, not in the courts, that our rights are established.”
Rights, riots and police brutality, 2020
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Kristian Williams3
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Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
Context: The complete independence of the Courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the Legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of the Courts of justice; whose duty it must be to declare all Acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.
No. 78
Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian
Source: Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954), p. 77
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Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
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Source: Beyond Hypocrisy, 1992, Doublespeak Dictionary (within Beyond Hypocrisy), p. 164.
“We are safer when communities respect the police and police respect communities.”
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Source: Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in Orlando, Florida (September 21, 2016)
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If They Come in The Morning (1971)
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A manager develops people.
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 344
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Source: Books on Phenomenology and Life, Material Phenomenology (1990)