Quotes about constitution
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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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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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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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More than 90 percent of Iraq's Shiites support the constitution, but not me.
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More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution,
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Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written. Steve Scalise
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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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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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I clung steadfastly to the hope that the democratic party would maintain its nationality and preserve the Constitution and the Union.
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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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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 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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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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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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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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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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The Constitution was about a limitation on power. Roy Moore
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The Constitution does not demand that you or I buy anything. Mike Conaway
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We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House. Kevin McCarthy
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is. Pat Oliphant
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Today's lawsuit simply requests the court to uphold the Constitution. The entire law is invalid because the law the House passed is different from the law the Senate passed and the president signed.
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We need to unite and maintain peace as this incident can divert Iraq from the constitution to violence, Jalal Talabani
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The president admits that there should be a meeting between us to discuss pertinent issues on the constitution and the way forward. Raila Odinga
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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.