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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.
I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
The central genius of the American Constitution lies in its use of structure to protect individual liberty. It does not rely solely, or even primarily, on grants of substantive rights.
No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.
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.
Test matches to me are the caviar compared to the fast food stuff. Having the ability and the constitution to triumph over five days is what it’s all about.
I think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights.
If I'm fortunate enough to get the nomination of the Constitution Party, I will take as many votes from Obama as I would from the Republican nominee.
You think you can govern separate from our Constitution? That's the foundation of progressivism right there, folks.
The last thing I saw Gabrielle Giffords do on the floor of the House of Representatives was to line up like the rest of us and read a part of the Constitution. And unbeknownst to her, when she got to the well, her part was the First Amendment.
The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress or the states to adopt same-sex marriage laws nor does it forbid them from maintaining traditional marriage laws.
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.
Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.
The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
Before I could become a military officer or a Member of Congress, I was required to do one thing: Take an oath to the Constitution.
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would make clear that corporations aren't people, that they - the framers of the Constitution never intended to give constitutional rights to corporations, the ones that we enjoy and cherish.
If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.
Musharraf has just gone against the constitution and displayed contempt of court and has shown that he has no respect for the rule of law.
In general, hateful speech and opinions are protected under the Constitution, except to the extent they are deemed to incite violence or otherwise become illegal. But, at the same time, civilized society tends to frown upon it.
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of the Government, but in the Constitution of the United States.
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.
In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.
My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.
I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.
Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.
I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.
To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.
The Constitution is designed to inconvenience one person from taking us to war. War is a very solemn and sobering and extraordinary act, and it should not be granted to one person.
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States.
It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories.
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.
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.
And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.
I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.
I have to uphold not only the constitution of Alabama, but I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and we will uphold the law of the United States.
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
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.
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.
Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons.
Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold the Second Amendment.
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was convicted of criminal contempt when he refused. Arpaio, by targeting Latinx people, was violating both the U.S. Constitution and our civil rights.
The emoluments clause is in the Constitution for a reason: We, as Americans, need to know that the president acts in our best interests, not his own self-interest.
In addition to protecting the rights of every citizen of our country, our Constitution makes the citizens of the country mindful of their duties.
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
In the Constitution, there is no idea of a political party. It is representatives of every constituency because it is so vibrant and varied.
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.
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