Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Political issues in the US often end up in courts.
In plain terms
Politics turns into legal questions eventually.
What can you take from it?
Expect courts to resolve political disputes.

Where it applies

  • policy disputes
  • election disputes
  • civil rights cases

Putting it to work

  • know the law
  • follow rulings
  • understand jurisdiction

Questions to consider

  • Why do courts decide politics?
  • Is judicial review good?

Another view

Some politics stay purely in the legislative branch.

More from Alexis de Tocqueville

  1. There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a…

    Permalink to quote #98
  2. They (the emperors) frequently abused their power arbitrarily to deprive their subjects of property or of life: their tyranny was extremely onerous to the few,…

    Permalink to quote #100
  3. There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his…

    Permalink to quote #97

Related quotes

  1. It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wr…

    Learned HandLearned Hand quote #6
  2. We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

    William O. DouglasWilliam O. Douglas quote #44
  3. We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the…

    Charles Evans HughesCharles Evans Hughes quote #1