Fifth amendment Quote by Michael Kinsley

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

— Michael Kinsley

“The purpose of our Constitution—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee—is to protect minority rights even when, or especially when, they are unpopular.”

— Michelle Alexander

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the…

— Michael Kinsley

“the Fifteenth Amendment”

— Beverly Jenkins

History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th…

— Michael K. Simpson

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

— Robert Bork

These liberals are the craziest things. The Constitution, they see things in it that aren't there and ignore things which are. The 14th Amendment,…

— Rush Limbaugh

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

— Arlen Specter

Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.

— Barack Obama

Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'

— Adam Cohen

“The protection guaranteed by the Amendments is much broader in scope. The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit…

— Louis D. Brandeis

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

— Rush Limbaugh