Quotes About Amendment

I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.

The better you get, the better you better get.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember and overthrow it.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

The next year, the Court decided what is generally viewed as the major case of the early years. The decision, Chisholm v. Georgia (1793), provoked an immediate backlash, in the form of the first constitutional amendment to be ratified after the ten amendments of the Bill of Rights.

wrote Justice Wilson. Not surprisingly, the states were alarmed by this development, and a constitutional amendment to overrule the decision was introduced two days later. In 1798, the Eleventh Amendment received final ratification, providing that the jurisdiction of the federal courts "shall not be construed to extend" to cases brought by citizens of one state against another state.

We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.

As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.

The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case.

The idea was there from the beginning: equality. And yet you can read every page of your pocket Constitution and you will not find, in the original Constitution, the word equal, or equality, even though equality was a main theme of the Declaration of Independence. The word equal becomes a part of the Constitution in the Fourteenth Amendment.

Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment.

It's neither appropriate nor responsible if I drastically amend a policy after one, two, or three submissions of opinion.

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

I'm always actively working on being a better me.

I'm addicted to growth.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

Among the defects of the bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

or amended and saved at 1:08 p.m. that afternoon

The best we can do today can improve all our tomorrows.