If I have to take police protection in my own country from my own people, then there is something wrong with me, I’m fighting within the framework of the Indian constitution and it is not...

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It’s our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and...

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on...

We need a constitution, we need rules, but we don’t need a wall,

It’s a titanic clash between two radically different interpretations of the Constitution. . . . It’s not good versus evil. It’s a tremendous battle over judicial philosophy.

The Constitution does not permit these panels to be the final arbiter of whether U.S. law provides for relief from unfair subsidies and dumping for U.S. producers and workers.

There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can...

I don’t think the Constitution prohibits the use of this textbook, but I have real doubts about the wisdom of this approach. At this time in America, it’s better to simply talk about religious influences...

I think most of the Arab Sunnis have agreed to this constitution. And those who do not agree with it do not represent the Arab Sunnis,

I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I...

Any discussion of zonal tax rates immediately raises constitutional issues. The chances of changing section 99 of the Constitution by referendum on this issue are zero,

The Bill of Rights wasn’t enacted to give us any rights. It was enacted so the Government could not take away from us any rights that we already had.

The King must restore the spirit of the Constitution. Until and unless he does that, he can’t expect anyone to take over the responsibility, only then can the situation go beyond the stalemate that we...

Now several groups of them support the constitution, are voting for it,

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right...

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

They get to pick out what parts of the Constitution or Bill of Rights they think matter most,

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws;...

It’s an unusual step. It’s a big step, but what the president did by consciously and intentionally violating the constitution and laws of this country with this illegal wiretapping has to be answered.

We’re worried the constitution will be rejected by the people. Large sections of the population reject some of the points being put into it.

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government

But let us be sure of something. We are not sheep. This government is ours, and it is meant to serve our best interests. And if it has grown into something it shouldn’t be, and...

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and...

Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums,...

It’s a silly law. Not because the Constitution isn’t worth celebrating, but because this is a silly way to go about it. But to call it an infringement of academic freedom is to confuse a...

[The answer of Solon to the question ‘Which is the most perfect popular government?’]That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.

On every question of Construction (of the Constitution) lets us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, instead of trying what meaning may be...

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

The creators of the Constitution were not purple-robed scholars, sitting in their ivory towers attempting to put abstract theories into play, but men who had come to realize that their system of government was broken....

We should not be hasty regarding the issues and the constitution should not be born crippled, … We are keen to have an early constitution, but the constitution should be completed in all of its...

I fought for McCain-Feingold because I believed it was not just consistent with the Constitution, it was necessary to preserve its basic promise of one person, one vote and stop the corrosive influence of big...

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States…capable of maintaining the rule of democracy…. Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores…. I am convinced that...

We dispute that. We don’t think that’s the correct reading of our constitution.

The draft constitution is one of the most progressive governing documents in the Muslim world, … in terms of its protection of rights of religious freedom and conscience.

I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this country has the right to assembly and freedom of speech.

Soma kila kitu, hata katiba.

We plan on giving students questions regarding the Constitution [today] they’ll have until the next week to answer them,

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.

[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component of a liberty. Part of citizenship in a free society is the expectation...

Their real goal is not to protect the constitution but to protect Tallahassee’s inside power brokers from the will of the people.

This constitution is an evil sign upon Iraqis. We want to reach a solution, but they want to provoke us so that we pull out.

We look forward for cooperation with the U.N. in establishing and drafting a constitution,

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others...

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what...

2. Humanity & Peace – 2.09 THE NUCLEAR QUESTIONAny act against the constitution,Must be declared to be but void,But atomic acts against humanity,Are the strength to be but tried.[22]- 2The future of any of the...