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Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas. -- Juan Williams
There is a Constitutional right to prostitution. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights -- Joe Biden
The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education. -- Thomas Jefferson
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended -- Benjamin Franklin
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences. -- George Will
Constitutional democracy can only survive if the people of our nation are moral. -- Ronald R. Cooke
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. -- Benjamin Franklin
Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps. -- Arnold Kling
Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. -- Mitt Romney
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. -- Archibald Cox
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us. -- Bill Moyers
Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government. -- Edwin Meese
In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law. -- Ken Starr
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States. -- Alexander Hamilton
When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people. -- Allen West
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work. -- Tony Kushner
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote. -- Kenny Marchant
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts. -- Roger Wicker
Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional. -- Jim Babka
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government. -- Joseph Sobran
This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President. -- Pratibha Patil
There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses. -- Andrew Vachss
The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress. -- Rand Paul
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment. -- Adrian Cronauer
There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury. -- George Washington
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman. -- Jimmy Swaggart
With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools. -- Nick Rahall
People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use? -- Cal Thomas
If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer. -- Robert X. Cringely
Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution. -- W. Cleon Skousen
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational. -- Horace Greeley
Every president since George Washington has respected this clause in the Constitution. We want to avoid that Constitutional potential crisis. And the way to do it is for Donald Trump - it`s not about him. -- Chuck Todd
No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except for two: that it's not moral or that it's not Constitutional. -- Ron Paul
Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they got detained over there did something really unforgivable. Like remind Obama he was once a professor of Constitutional Law. -- Stephen Colbert
Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts. -- Bill Vaughan
The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility. -- L. Neil Smith
My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for the Vice-President to do it all.... There should be no compromise of our Constitutional rights. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this treaty had to be unclear. It is a success. -- Karel De Gucht
I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters. -- Sargent Shriver
Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. -- Larry J. Sabato
If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. -- Larry J. Sabato
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. -- L. Neil Smith
In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. -- Dennis Cardoza
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens. -- Albert Einstein
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights. -- Pete Stark
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." -- Benjamin Franklin
Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission. -- L. Neil Smith
Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The committee informed us they had passed on W[oman] S[uffrage] being ten to five in favor. -- Ruth May Fox
I've always been a big supporter of the Constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of grievances. It's just that I never envisioned it taking the form of thousands of people screaming 'you asshole!' at me. -- Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. -- Judy Biggert
I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does. -- Jessi Klein
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones. -- Robert Mugabe
What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter. -- Elena Kagan
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. -- Thurgood Marshall
The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. -- Hugo Black
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. -- Rand Paul
The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one. -- Bayard Rustin
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. -- Michele Bachmann
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. -- Ron Paul
People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero. -- Sarah Palin
There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are. -- Bernie Sanders
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth. -- Will Rogers
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. -- Andrew Jackson
The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution. -- Marco Rubio
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. -- Abraham Lincoln
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean. -- Rand Paul
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Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. -- Steve King
For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. -- Dianne Feinstein
Love it or hate it, Obamacare is the law of the land. It was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Obama, declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and ratified by a majority of Americans, who reelected the president for a second term. -- Hank Johnson
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. -- Robert Bork
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. -- Will Rogers
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political. -- Fred Hampton
The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. -- Michael Badnarik
If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun. -- Malcolm X
I call myself a constitutional conservative. -- Rand Paul
Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional -- Woodrow Wilson
The path we have chosen is constitutional. -- John Ashcroft
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. -- Edward Gibbon
I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. -- Ed Case
There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. -- Elena Kagan
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional. -- Antonin Scalia
Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time. -- Hillary Clinton
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. -- Simon Schama
I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy. -- John Rawls
We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray. -- William J. Clinton
Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society. -- David Barton
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes. -- Benazir Bhutto
I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value. -- Allard K. Lowenstein
There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage. -- Corrine Brown
Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward. -- Stephen Kinzer
What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights. -- Matthew Dowd
There have been 44 constitutional referenda in Australia and only eight have succeeded. -- George Brandis
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. -- David Mamet
The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud. -- Lynn Westmoreland
Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations... -- Jim Harbaugh
Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system. -- Mike DeWine
In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment. -- Ken Buck
Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't. -- Eleanor Smeal
I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. -- Abraham Lincoln
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field. -- Warren E. Burger
Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect. -- Barack Obama
Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad. -- John Yoo
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. -- Alan Bullock
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. -- Mary Cheney
I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. -- Mary Cheney
The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation. -- Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles. -- James Madison
The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional. -- Bob Ehrlich
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. -- George B. McClellan
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. -- Walter Bagehot
This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic. -- Allen West
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. -- Anthony Kennedy
Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards. -- Joseph Sobran

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