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No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights -- Joe Biden
There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud. -- Lynn Westmoreland
It's my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president. -- Stacey Dash
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. -- Gore Vidal
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care? -- Al Sharpton
I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. -- Ted Cruz
We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
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
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
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech. -- Pete Wilson
People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so. -- Brian Sandoval
People don't have a constitutional right to leave loaded guns lying around. And if they choose to do so - and a kid gets shot and killed because of it - it's not an accident. It's negligent homicide. -- Kurt Eichenwald
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
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
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
On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places. -- Mark Foley
Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic. -- Mo Rocca
We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us. -- Graham Nash
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
I have no problem with responsible gun owners who own weapons for self-protection, hunting, or just sport. The ones who believe they have a constitutional right to 100-round magazines to fight off I don't know what - a zombie apocalypse? - try to shut down dialogue with threats and other macho posing because of their flawed beliefs. -- Kurt Eichenwald
There is a Constitutional right to prostitution. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. -- Elena Kagan
Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations... -- Jim Harbaugh
The fact that presidents have done something does not necessarily make it right or constitutional. -- Chris Edelson
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer. -- Al Sharpton
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. -- Ferdinand Lassalle
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold. -- Michael Maloney
We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value. -- Barney Frank
We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly. -- Mike Royko
When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads. -- Lin Yutang
Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress. -- Walter E. Williams
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
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms... -- Andrew Jackson
There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise. -- Bill Vaughan
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
I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights. -- Bobby Seale
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
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution. -- Abraham Lincoln
I support the constitutional right of American women to consult their own conscious, their own support of partner, their own minister, but then make their own decision about pregnancy. -- Tim Kaine
The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access. -- George Will
The ripping and tearing of an unborn child from his mother's womb through the hands of another, and we say, "That's fine; you have a constitutional right to do that." -- Tom Coburn
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. -- Robert H. Jackson
I strongly support Roe v. Wade, which guarantees a constitutional right to a woman to make the most intimate, most difficult, in many cases, decisions about her health care that one can imagine. -- Hillary Clinton
The big thing is to make this country... quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. ... They're American citizens. -- Barry Goldwater

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