For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

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• Sandra Day O'Connor:

  Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such gre

• Sandra Day O'Connor:

  I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

• Sandra Day O'Connor:

  It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, ther

• Sandra Day O'Connor:

  I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was i

• Sandra Day O'Connor:

  I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise

• Sandra Day O'Connor:

  In terms of having the American people look at the court and think of it as being fair and appropri

• Antonin Scalia:

  I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's cer

• Antonin Scalia:

  The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterr

• Antonin Scalia:

  I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if y

• Antonin Scalia:

  A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.