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• Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due… — William J. Brennan
• The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a… — Andrew Napolitano
• Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your… — Jon Bon Jovi
• The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in… — Frank I. Cobb
• Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in… — Frederick Douglass
• With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment… — Antonin Scalia
• Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What… — L. Neil Smith
• For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our… — Ezra Taft Benson
• No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to… — William Rawle
• The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to… — William Rawle
• The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War… — Robert Graves
• To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be… — James Madison

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