A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution

The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them

No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. But the PNP and Jamaica have our own Thomas Jefferson ... former leader and Premier Norman Washington Manley. Indeed Norman Washington Manley was better - note the word

I fought for McCain-Feingold because I believed it was not just consistent with the Constitution, it was necessary to preserve its basic promise of one person, one vote and stop the corrosive influence of big money on our political system,

There are so many issues in the case - whether the president was authorized by the Constitution or a statute to set up the commissions, right down to exactly how to fit this kind of a war into the existing laws of war. Most cases have two or three or four issues. This one has 10 or 12, which makes it very hard to handicap.

The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself