Quotes About Constitutional

At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future.

I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional?

If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional.

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.

Can you tell me what's more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their Fifth Amendment rights, their Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the right to equal protection under the law?

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.

I have only met Prince Charles once, when he was very charming and easy to chat to. I have always had a soft spot for him, and I admire our constitutional monarchy, but Charles often comes across as eccentric, and he has a mixed press.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating circumstances.

Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing.

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

I believe that open criticism of any institution is necessary in a democracy, to safeguard the constitutional order.

The main thing law enforcement has in common throughout the country are the Constitutional limitations of officers' use of deadly force. The overriding law of the land that is most often looked to in cases in which officers use any force option, including deadly force, is Graham v. Connor (490 U.S. 386 (1989)).

Impeachment should occur when a president's prior misdeeds are so awful in their own right, and so disturbing a signal of future conduct, that allowing the president to remain in office poses a clear danger of grave harm to the constitutional order.

Many Constitutional Convention delegates also worried that presidents might be tempted to accept foreign bribes and conspire with enemy powers.

Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are really beneath the comprehension of those who have not made themselves masters, as I have, of the intricate and arduous study of politics; I would rather keep my seat, and intend doing so.

Quiet people avoid the question of the Presidency, for there will be a new election in three years and a half, and party feeling runs very high: the great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly the acrimony of the last election is over, the acrimony of the next one begins;

Why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

The American constitutional system had been devised to prevent easy capture of the government by popular majorities.

The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.