People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.
People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it.
