Quotes About Constitution

Because the Second Amendment is an incomprehensible mess, because too many lobbyists have argued that it is an absolute protection of actions and items never considered at the time of our nation's founding, and because there is a clear state interest in protecting the lives of its citizens, the words must be removed from the Constitution.

Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.

The Second Amendment is the one that really protects all of our liberties that we are given by our Lord, and our God-given rights, and are protected under the Constitution.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

The Constitution protects our right to peacefully protest injustices, but violence has no place in our civic discourse.

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States 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.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.

There is no constitutional basis for the federal government to be mandated to assist with student debt.

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

We need to reinstate the idea of federalism.

The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' That means not by the president, not by Congress.

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit a crime.

I believe in the First Amendment.

The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.

The future of the Second Amendment depends on the free exercise of the First Amendment.

Obama cannot erase the Second Amendment without crippling or controlling exercise of the First Amendment.

Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that.

If we don't have the ability to keep and bear arms, then who knows when they are going to decide they want to take the First Amendment away from us, or one of the other amendments.