Quotes About Constitutional

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it.

We are a nation of United States - a constitutional republic made up of individually governed states empowering three equal branches of government to act on our behalf - not one nation-state governed exclusively by a President.

I'm endorsing Col. Maness for United States Senate because of his deeply held commitment to the constitutional rights and principles our nation was founded upon.

I am a pro-growth, constitutional, limited government conservative. So I'm going to speak out for what I believe in - the kind of inclusive, aspirational, optimistic politics which unites people.

I am an originalist, to begin with. So, I am a constitutional conservative. I believe that the Constitution enshrines some universal ideals that make our country strong and that are consistent with truth, and so that's the basic thing.

Those who care about constitutional development should look beyond universal suffrage for the chief executive election and turn their sights to universal suffrage for Legco as well.

There is no constitutional right for a citizen in a foreign country, who has no status in America, to demand entry into our country. Such a right cannot exist. Such a right will never exist.

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

But you have to suspend disbelief if you ever want to enjoy another movie or watch the president for more than fifteen seconds without running into the street demanding a new constitutional convention.

In many ways, anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself because, at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government or ideas of personal character - only a free-floating nihilism cloaked in insult, mockery, and bombast.

Either the Obamacare is a dead letter, or the origination clause is; we can't have both.

Especially for NRA members, it was obvious from the get-go that Obama believes he is above any constitutional restraints.

The police were in no mood for a lesson on constitutional law from a Sudanese refugee.

Indeed, the lesson of our history is that the task of merely maintaining strong and sturdy the structures of a constitutional order is unending, the continuing and ceaseless work of every generation.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

Anything for Human Rights is constitutional.

Constitutional rights do not always have easily ascertainable boundaries, and controversy over the meaning of our Nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent. As judges, however, we are sworn to uphold the law even when its content gives rise to bitter dispute.

The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.

Every member of the Senate has a constitutional duty to follow the Constitution and to uphold the Constitution.

I will continue to work with state and federal partners to protect our state's values, and to uphold legal, ethical and moral standards - and the Constitutional rights and liberties - that have distinguished America from the rest of the world for generations.