While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage,… — John Boehner 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
The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states.… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
One of the things that I'm doing and I'm - we have the Johnson Amendment. You know what that is. That Lyndon… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation… Notwithstanding the military establishments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's no way you are going to get rid of the Second Amendment, there's no way you're going to get rid of… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal… — George Will Copy Share Image
The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I find it very odd that the amendment about the right to bear arms, laws that were written so long ago, still… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property...… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners -… — Alan Gottlieb Copy Share Image
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this country [the USA], you have got to tolerate things you do not like in order to preserve the First Amendment,… — Harvey Levin Copy Share Image
The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent… — Allyson Robinson Copy Share Image
By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image
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