We're picking a Supreme Court justice here, not a Sunday school teacher. President Bush and his allies should be talking about Miers' knowledge of the Constitution, not the Bible.
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There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.
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I'll accuse the prosecutor of violating human rights in Turkey, of neglecting and misusing his position and violating the Turkish Constitution. Turkey needs better human rights so its citizens can be treated like human beings. That's what we're fighting for.
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When judges pay more credence to another judge than they do the words of the First Amendment, they put that judge and themselves over the law. Freedom requires that our courts protect the people by serving the Constitution, not judges.
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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
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I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
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Conversations About The Constitution
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The European constitution is dead for the Netherlands.
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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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It's not something to confuse, but something to try and clarify to people that this is something that should be done, not in the constitution but in the revised code
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When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
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Amending the state constitution may be the only way to prevent activist judges from destructively reshaping the centuries-old definition of marriage.
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It's a significant change. And in large part because it's going into the constitution.
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I am not against reservations. If the constitution of India provides special privileges to backward sections of the society then it cannot be withdrawn.
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The constitution does not envisage the possibility of a federal unit breaking away. No federal unit can break away in accordance with the constitution and in a democratic way. If someone does attempt to break away by force, we all know what we will get.
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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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The president promised in two campaigns to nominate justices who will faithfully uphold the text and principles of the Constitution. One would expect the president to nominate more exceptional judicial conservatives like Judge Roberts for as many vacancies as occur, whether it is two, three, or more.
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It sounds like the president has an interesting range of candidates before him. Which one of them he'll settle on no one knows, but we do know he has promised nominees who represent his judicial philosophy like Justices [Antonin] Scalia and [Clarence] Thomas. No president in recent memory has done such a great job of choosing jurists who are faithful to the Constitution.
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I'm still waiting for a judge or anyone to show me anywhere in the Constitution where there's a separation of church and state. We didn't lose; we were robbed.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
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The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engage in gestures of superficial equality.
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The Constitution does not guarantee the right to acquire information at a public library without any risk of embarrassment.
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In contrast to the prescribed right to statewide referendum process, there is no affirmative right under the Maine Constitution which enables citizens to enact local ordinances by petition. This conclusion is in accordance with Maine law.. In conclusion, the city drafted the charter to provide for a citizen's initiative process and the city can amend the charter to limit that process. The proposed amendment is in accordance with state and federal constitutions, as well as state statute.
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The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.
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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
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