Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia. Because there is a need for a militia to be… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment. And I am I don't know if Hillary was saying it… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Whether children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal question, but what is not in question is that they someday will.… — Crispin Sartwell Copy Share Image
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
When a person is on a watch list or a no-fly list, and I have the endorsement of the NRA, which I'm… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm.… — Jim Bridenstine Copy Share Image
It could be clearly proved that by a practical nullification [by the South] of the Fifteenth Amendment the Republicans have for several… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times.… — Frances Farenthold Copy Share Image
I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the… — Andrew Ford Copy Share Image
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting.… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
