Quotes About Constitution

The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and because this denial was state-sponsored, the nation is obligated to remedy it.

African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and because this denial was state-sponsored, the nation is obligated to remedy it.

bear a collective responsibility to enforce our Constitution and to rectify past violations whose effects endure.

In 1870 in response to the Fifteenth Amendment, the citizens of Michigan made a simple but far-reaching alteration to their 1850 constitution. They struck out the word "white.

A constituição diz que todas as pessoas, homens e mulheres, têm o direito inalienável de prestar o serviço e assumir a cidadania plena... Mas o fato é que está ficando difícil achar algo pra todos os voluntários fazerem que não seja apenas uma forma disfarçada de descascar batatas.

In fact, I only differ with them in not liking their intolerance, their fascist tactics, their introduction of Maoist brainwashing to our groves of Academe, their utter lack of humor, their continuous violations of ordinary common sense, their evident desire to destroy our Constitution and their lack of simple human decency. Aside from those minor issues, I almost approve the P.C. agenda.)

How the Feds ever acquired the power to decide how much pain a sick person must suffer before dying remains legally obscure. The Constitution certainly never granted such sadistic power to any part of the government.

By the 1990s, of course, the U.S. government no longer considered people who showed respect for the Constitution to be suspected Communists. Instead, such people were considered suspected Terrorists.

And that's maybe a better description of the experience of reading the Federalist Papers now, if you're reading them for guidance through a modern crisis. The predictions of the Framers of the Constitution were accurate for a time, but history diverged from their path a while back.

Redeemer governments write new constitutions; they put up monuments to Confederates and terrorists. In 1891, the Redeemer government of New Orleans erects a monument to the victors of the Battle of Liberty Place: the White League. In 1920, a committee erects a monument to honor the three white men who died in the attack on the Grant Parish courthouse as "heroes . . . fighting for White Supremacy.

They laugh because they're surprised, because of course they've been taught the standard story about how wonderful and successful the Constitution has been. Most of them haven't heard the phrase "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell." It originates, remember, from William Lloyd Garrison, who urged northern secession rather than union with slaveholders and burned a copy of the Constitution. "So perish all compromises with tyranny!

The Founders' Constitution is a deal. You get an American nation, but you must accept slavery. That's a bargain with evil, a deal with the devil. And like most deals with the devil, it doesn't work out very well.

he had the wrong constitution for disappearing. Because that was what disappearing would mean, the life of a permanent tourist, soulless, drowning in small talk.

You know a constitution is kind of like a blueprint," Charlotte said thoughtfully. "Getting a real working government out of it is the true act of construction.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are legitimate religions.].

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.