Quotes of: Constitutional-amendment Keyword

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

Al Franken

The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the Constitution the go-by, your republic will be under stress.

Kishore Chandra Deo

In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn't care. He is the law.

Rush Limbaugh

Hacks didn't destroy, they just...creatively amended.

Fall of Night

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

Heather Wilson

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

Cass Sunstein

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Military Attache: Well, up the Cooper-Church Amendment's ass!

The Killing Fields

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Hagen

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 p...

The Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three gener...

No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The Constitution of the United States of America

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

Bill Maher

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be agains...

Robert Walpole

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

Albert Einstein

As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution.

Todd Tiahrt

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

Mike Huckabee

I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.

Marc Warren

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

Robert Bork