Quotes About Constitution

Plenty of gun opponents have pointed out the obvious: that the Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the kinds of 'arms' that exist today - Washington, Jefferson, and the rest had never even seen a bullet. Musket balls for guns that required constant reloading were the 'arms' of the day.

As prime minister of Iraq, I am required to act in accordance with the Constitution to protect all of the Iraqi people and to keep our country united.

Before I could become a military officer or a Member of Congress, I was required to do one thing: Take an oath to the Constitution.

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.

As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.

Reservation is a socio-political necessity. Hence, there is a constitutional provision for it.

I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

If National Security Agency (NSA) heads fundamentally lack an understanding of what constitutes constitutionally protected communications, or worse, chose to disregard those directives, then it's time for the appropriate heads of these agencies to resign.

I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

What does a center-right party in America stand for? Once this was easy to answer: fiscal sanity, free trade, being strong on Russia, personal responsibility, the Constitution. Now? Can anyone honestly define what the Republican Party stands for beyond "owning the libs"? Whatever that means.

The Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, is a vastly wealthy, powerful force. Though there is no mention of parties in the Constitution, these conglomerates have come to be the most powerful forces in our democracy. Each party is a multibillion-dollar industry that, like any powerful business, will respond when threatened. The greater the threat, the more desperate the reaction.

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words support the Constitution of the United States I felt like saying: Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.

You know what else is my constitutional right? To get an abortion. You don't get to choose what rights belong to me.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the [First] Amendment...the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. Any attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.

I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

Lovely house," Jack said, as he was led—hands still bound—through the grand entrance of Belgrave. He turned to the old lady. "Did you decorate? It has that woman"s touch." Miss Eversleigh was trailing behind, but he could hear her choke back a bubble of laughter. "Oh, let it out, Miss Eversleigh," he called over his shoulder. "Much better for your constitution.

I am an Indian, and I know what India is. I know Indian culture. I know Indian constitution and democracy.

Whether the Constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.