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I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.
Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.
We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.
The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.
Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.
The Constitution of the United States... specifically states the Congress shall write legislation for immigration policy in the United States.
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.
We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.
The Framers of the Constitution wisely understood that constitutional principles must not be sacrificed on the altar of political appeasement.
The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.
There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.
In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.
There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.
The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.
I take my citizenship extremely seriously. I find myself drawn to the Constitution more and more with each passing day of Donald Trump's presidency.
I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.
The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.
To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan’s constitution. He clearly can’t read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes
The FBI's mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. That mission is both dual and simultaneous - it is not contradictory.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty.
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.