Robert H. Jackson Quotes About Constitution

• Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.

  Robert H. Jackson

  War, Power, Long

• El propósito mismo de una declaración de derechos es retirar ciertos temas de... la controversia política, ponerlos fuera del alcance de las mayorías.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Derechos, Política, Mayoría

• Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Gestation Period, Years, Law

  "The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study in Crisis in American Power Politics". Book by Robert H. Jackson, p. 297, 1941.

• No somos definitivos porque seamos infalibles, sino infalibles sólo porque somos definitivos.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Law, Justice, Honor

  Brown v. Allen (opinión concurrente) (1953)

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