Quotes About Constitution

the constitution's various parts were so mutually interdependent that reform within the rules was next to impossible. AS a result, radicals found that they had little choice other than to set themselves beyond and against the law.

Political debate became polarized into bitter conflicts, with radical outsiders trying to press change on conservative insiders who, in the teeth of all the evidence, believed that all was for the best under the best of all possible constitutions.

The main trouble with the Roman constitution was that it contained too many checks and balances, whether to restrain ambitious power-seekers or to protect ordinary citizens from the executive. It is somewhat surprising that anything was ever decided.

My rights are precious, and I value those provided to me through the United States Constitution so much.

In order to keep the judiciary independent of the executive, the constitution provided impeachment as the only method for disciplining errant judges.

Our Constitution provides the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression and it also enjoins upon citizens the duty to safeguard public property and to abjure violence.

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

I do not have the luxury of deciding which provisions of the Ohio Constitution to defend.

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

If we are to celebrate the giants in Australian public life, then Robert Garran must be among them. A lawyer and passionate advocate of Federation, Garran was one of several hands that drafted our constitution.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

Americans have a right to obtain firearms for lawful purposes.

Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.

Many homosexual couples in Korea are already together. They are not legally accepted yet, but I believe the Korean Constitution allows it. We are guaranteed the right to the pursuit of happiness. Of course, there may be different interpretations to what that pursuit means.

Our Declaration of Independence was the start of a conversation about how to achieve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every citizen. Our Constitution was always intended to grow and adapt as we formed a more perfect union, established justice, and ensured peace, security, and the blessings of liberty.

I love the Constitution. But it's still a document, meant to protect human beings and ensure their life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Push the envelope too far as a female artist, and you may only earn an ocean of ink expressing concern for your delicate constitution, amounting to a caution against playing on traditionally male wavelengths.