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No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights -- Joe Biden
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. -- George B. McClellan
Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. -- Mitt Romney
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights. -- James Bovard
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution. -- Saddam Hussein
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
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. -- Gerrit Smith
They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach. -- Ernst Zundel
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
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that. -- Frank Hague
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets. -- Judith Butler
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -- Thurgood Marshall
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss. -- Pat Paulsen
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. -- Albert Einstein
My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights -- Ronald Reagan
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all. -- William O. Douglas
The entire future of marriage rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who declared in Citizens United that corporations are people with constitutional rights. I just hope he doesn't do anything rash, like declare that homosexuals are people with constitutional rights. -- Stephen Colbert
If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order to strike down laws the justices don't like based on their personal preferences. It's not judicial activism to strike down laws because they violate the Constitution. -- Ann Coulter
The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? -- James Madison
People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a constitutional right. So with do, as a nation, have the ability and should have the ability to decide who comes here and when they come here. -- Rand Paul
We're looking at a president [Barack Obama] who's engaged in double-speak where he doesn't call radical Islamic terrorism by its name. Indeed, he gives a speech after the San Bernardino attack where his approach is to try to go after the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens rather than to keep us safe. -- Ted Cruz
I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing; it resonates with me: 'A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.' -- Ted Olson
No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication through unawareness of their constitutional rights. No system worth preserving should have to fear that if an accused is permitted to consult with a lawyer, he will become aware of, and exercise, these rights. -- Arthur Goldberg
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist. -- Steve Stockman
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
I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
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
I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges. -- Charles B. Rangel
We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights. -- Frank Murphy
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture. -- Orrin Hatch
President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand. -- Helen Thomas
During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights in a lawful and appropriate manner, and I believe it is important that we provide individuals with specific reassurance that we value those rights. -- Colleen Hanabusa
In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man. -- David Strathairn
We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And I found that many of the old people on my reservation didn't know who was president. That kind of pointed out to me the irrelevance at times of who is in Washington. -- Winona LaDuke
Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society. -- David Barton
What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights. -- Matthew Dowd
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights -- Thomas Jefferson
We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights. -- Samuel Adams
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. -- Hank Johnson
I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'! -- Christina Stead
Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. NetworkEtiquette.net -- David Chiles
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties. -- John Rawls
We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign. -- Ted Cruz
Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control. -- Kalle Lasn
A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102) -- Cornel West
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. -- Abe Fortas
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes! -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates. -- Warren Farrell
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
Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights. -- Paul Robeson
The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government. -- John Adams
As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.' -- Nat Hentoff
The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional rights. This judge's ruling is wonderful. -- James Lafferty
Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights. -- Dianne Feinstein
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

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