Quotes About Constitution

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

Contemptuous of all politicians, they were especially wary of a Bengali majority in any future federal constitution. If permitted to secure their rightful place in the governance of the country, Bengali politicians could join their disaffected counterparts in the non- Punjabi provinces to force a change in Pakistan's Kashmir focused and pro- American foreign policy.

Donning the populist garb, Bhutto swore to bring about the biggest turnaround the ill- fated country had ever seen. He would restore democracy, frame a constitution, and establish the rule of law so that the people would never again be "under the capricious will of any individual.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

There are indeed practical men who reject the dignified parts of Government. They say, we want only to attain results, to do business: a constitution is a collection of political means for political ends, and if you admit that any part of a constitution does no business, or that a simpler machine would do equally well what it does, you admit that this part of the constitution, however dignified or awful it may be, is nevertheless in truth useless.

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

Since the time of the Founding Fathers, and since they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution, our guns have developed at a rate that leaves me dizzy.

If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to life those boundaries in our constitutional system that were supposed to be the critical checks in the checks and balances system. Without them, we lose - gradually, we lose our liberty.

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.

I am a forthright defender of the right to bear arms - which is guaranteed not only by the U.S. Constitution, but by the Constitution of Arizona.

I absolutely believe in the right to own and bear arms guaranteed by our forefathers.

Our constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and if anybody has a problem we should listen to him, instead of running after him.

We are proudly a gun state and respect the Second Amendment.

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

We've got some people who think Shariah law oughta be the law of the land, forget the Constitution. But the guns are there, the Second Amendment is there, to make sure all of the rest of the amendments are followed.

What should distress modern Australians, in addition to the virulence of the racism which infected these founding fathers, is the fact that it blinded them to the advantage of adopting, like the US, a code of universal human values, a bedrock of principles upon which Australian law could develop logically and humanely. Thus Australia was endowed with a supreme law – its constitution – which lacked any systemic protection for citizen liberties.

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