Quotes about constitution
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The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. Carl Levin
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We are pleased the court decided the Indiana Constitution prohibits the Evansville school corporation from imposing a fee for programs and services that are essential to young Hoosiers' education.
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The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States. Louie Gohmert
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I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. Benjamin Franklin
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We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it. Abraham Lincoln
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In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Gerald R. Ford
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Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection. Eula Biss
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Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities. Eric Holder
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Since the referendum on the EU constitution, Chirac has been in a much weakened position, and it has become obvious he is not really in the running for another term as president.
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Since September 11th we have seen the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th amendments to the Constitution abrogated either in whole or in part. What has been done about it? Michael Ruppert
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She is pressing for a view of the Constitution that is quite cosmopolitan, and she is using an out-of-country venue to make her point.
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Let me be very clear: I will never be a rubber-stamp for any President. That would be contrary to the Constitution of the United States. Barbara Boxer
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Let the people decide, not the courts. The definition of marriage needs to rise to the level of the constitution.
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The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested. John C. Calhoun
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At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level. Laurent Fabius
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We dispute that. We don't think that's the correct reading of our constitution.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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We still have some hope that we could reach something. If we reach it, fair enough. If we don't, then they have to take responsibility for what happens if this constitution is passed.
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Today we accomplished the final amendments of the new constitution and the final version has been presented to the United Nations to print it and to be distributed to the Iraqi people, Saddam Hussein
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. Samuel Adams
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The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers. Noah Feldman
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Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized. Lysander Spooner
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Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.
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And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote. Robert Byrd
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We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
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Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it. Timothy Noah
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Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security. Wesley Clark
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There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away. Alberto Gonzales
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle. Vayalar Ravi
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If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
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No country in the world can draft their constitution in three months. They themselves took 10 years. Why do they wish to impose a silly constitution on us?
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But the American people are already deciding that their Constitution does not permit dismembering children, Frank Pavone