Constitution Quotes

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The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual… — Barack Obama
John Facenda could read a laundry list and make it sound like the Constitution of the United States. — Ed Sabol
Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man. — Arvind Kejriwal
Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any… — Ben Bradlee
The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are legitimate religions.]. — Roy Moore
The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas."… — Potter Stewart
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations… — William J. Brennan
And I take this opportunity to declare, that ...I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me,… — James Otis
If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would… — Mark Twain
The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets… — Dahlia Lithwick
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius. — Dahlia Lithwick
If we want to preserve our liberty, it is up to us to know what is going on, to know the Constitution, to know these… — Michael Farris
Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States? — Michael Farris
I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our… — Paul Bremer
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man. — William H. Seward
In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this… — Kenzaburo Oe
The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first… — Jeremy Rifkin
It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of… — John Shattuck
Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach.....This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th,… — Luther L. Bohanon
To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and… — Carol Moseley Braun

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