Laurence Tribe Quotes

born 1941 United States

Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is an American constitutional law scholar, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the Harvard Law School, and co-founder of the American Constitution Society.

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This book must... touch... deep and difficult questions about birth and death... life and its inception... sexuality and gender, about distribution of power.

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)

"The heart has its reasons," as Pascal famously said, "that reason does not know." Good enough. And those heartfelt reasons deserve a hearing. But when they defy reason, the meaning of living by the rule of law is that reason should prevail.

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Judicial neutrality necessarily involves taking sides. ...[J]udicial restraint is but another form of judicial activism.

American Constitutional Law (1978)

The inescapable boundaries of societal context and consciousness argue... that [judges] must raise distinctive voices of principle.

American Constitutional Law (1978)

We... devote... Chapter five to the proposition that there is too much loose impeachment talk, and we think that impeachment... needs to be cautiously and carefully approached.

Laurence Tribe on To End a Presidency (2018)

[T]here are plenty of things besides private action that the Constitution is "not about."

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Since it first came before the Supreme Court... abortion... has been about the Constitution. Whom does it protect? How do we decide..?

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)

This is... a book about morality. By offering several perspectives... some rooted in philosophy, some... in science and technology, we may come to see new ways to understand...

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)

I am... moved... by a sense of the ultimate futility of the quest for an Archimedean point outside ourselves from which the legitimacy of some form of judicial review or constitutional exegesis may be affirmed.

Constitutional Choices (1985)

[A]ttempts to treat constitutional doctrine neutrally elide important questions and obscure available answers.

American Constitutional Law (1978)

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