It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.
The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.
I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
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.
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
