The leaders of different political spectrum across India have buried their differences and joined hands to put up a spirited fight against… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
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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
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Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing… — Mel Watt Copy Share Image
Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions.… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
The Naturalization Act of 1790, three years after the Constitution, said the children of citizens shall be considered natural born citizens. That's… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The Massachusetts constitution was written much later than the other revolutionary state constitutions, and thus it avoids some of the earlier mistakes.… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
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Good judges are always open to the possibility of changing their minds based on the next brief that they read, or the… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state is a misnomer. People misunderstand it. Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
Every president since George Washington has respected this clause in the Constitution. We want to avoid that Constitutional potential crisis. And the… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
I would hope that the Senate would do its job and confirm the nominee that President [Barack] Obama has sent to them.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you… — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing… — William Barr Copy Share Image
There's simply no question under "The Constitution," and, frankly, under federal law, that the president of the United States has the authority,… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
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