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The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.
Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.
I tell myself I bear witness. The real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide.
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.
The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That`s not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.
The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.
Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.
Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed.
Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.
Judiciary must be encouraged to find ways and means to regulate its own affairs - consistent with the spirit of the Constitution.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.
If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.
Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.
A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.
Before I could become a military officer or a Member of Congress, I was required to do one thing: Take an oath to the Constitution.
We're going to appoint great justices to the United States Supreme Court to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.
What's the difference between a liberal and a conservative? A liberal will interpret the constitution, a conservative will quote it!
It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
Basically, if you become president, you must swear to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and what the Constitution says.
A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.
We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.
The constitution is very clear as to how and when the president hands over power. He can only hand power over to an elected successor.
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can't second-guess them.
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."
I look forward to taking on issues regarding the Constitution, intellectual property, terrorism, and other legal and regulatory reforms.
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.