Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your lif...
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.
Love it or hate it, Obamacare is the law of the land. It was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Obama, declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and ratified by a majority of Americans, who reelected the president for a second t...
I want to prevent us reifying 'the Internet' as something to be preserved like some people want to preserve the American Constitution as it was written.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.
We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.
Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.
Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'
The Constitution of the United States... specifically states the Congress shall write legislation for immigration policy in the United States.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
