Constitutionally Quotes
51 quotes by 47 authors
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We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
— Robert Dale Owen
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Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.
— Simon Schama
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Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment…
— Cass Sunstein
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I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to…
— Barry Goldwater
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If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional…
— William O. Douglas
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For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not…
— Potter Stewart
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Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many…
— Laurence Tribe
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You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may…
— Jay Sekulow
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Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass…
— John Glenn
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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally…
— Abraham Lincoln
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However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and…
— Dick Thornburgh
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Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they…
— Bertrand Russell
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The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.
— Janet Napolitano
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We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we…
— Jay Sekulow
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By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and…
— John Cornyn
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I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
— Wilkie Collins
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I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we…
— Tim Kaine
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Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.
— Rob Bishop
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The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.
— Dylan Moran
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There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as…
— Arlen Specter
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