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I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. -- Ed Case
We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray. -- William J. Clinton
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage. -- Corrine Brown
I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. -- Mary Cheney
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. -- John Engler
I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage. -- Dina Titus
A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. -- Ronald Reagan
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
The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. -- Jon Meacham
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
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
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
Because marriage is a sacred institution and the foundation of society, it should not be redefined by activist judges. For the good of families, children and society, I support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage. -- George W. Bush
Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding. -- Jon Stewart
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
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
I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government. -- Michele Bachmann
I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life. -- Mike Huckabee
Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault. -- Robert H. Jackson
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this. -- Susan B. Anthony
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer. -- Al Sharpton

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