War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution,

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute,

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man

Since the referendum on the EU constitution, Chirac has been in a much weakened position, and it has become obvious he is not really in the running for another term as president.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Peaceful protests are guaranteed by the constitution, rallies should not be prohibited.

Freedom… Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!

Just talk to me as a father ‘¦ not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United...

The fact is that we are proceeding with the reconstruction of the country, with the building of a constitution. And the time that we are devoting to that also is time for training with a...

[The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits] unreasonable searches and seizures. … some rights have to yield to others.

We hope tomorrow we can finish this matter. The final day will be when we say this is the constitution draft which everybody agreed on.

The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had...

There simply can be no honor in claiming you are protecting the country, if you are shitting on the Constitution while you do it.

If concessions are made to the Sunnis to make additions to the constitution, then the other parties want a guarantee from the Sunnis that they will vote back the constitution at the referendum. But there...

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

This constitution is full of land mines that would explode on Iraqis. This constitution will divide the country.

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...

Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal...

The constitution is left to our people to approve or reject it, … I hope that our people will accept it despite some flaws.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even...

Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British...

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the...

This is an illegitimate constitution presented to the people by an untrustworthy government, … Our only hope is that we are able to defeat the constitution and start again with a government that truly represents...

New Jersey’s constitution cannot possibly be subject to the discrimination of the other states. We will see a patchwork in this nation as we have in other civil rights law.

As long as the constitution of my country is not amended to cut down the sizes of the dreams of its citizens, I have the freedom to dream extra largest dreams. I am even dreaming...

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

If the Sunnis don’t buy into this constitution over the next two months by voting for Sunnis in the parliament and trying to get the constitution amended, we may find a regional war, not just...

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...

Probably one reason you do not have to be a lawyer is that when the Constitution was written, there was no uniform definition of what it meant to be a lawyer, … And there certainly...

We hope all Iraqis will vote ‘Yes’ to the constitution so that the building of Iraq can begin.

Do you really cleanse the office as provided in the Constitution or do you use the Air Wick of a censure resolution? … A censure is something that is a device, a way of avoiding...

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

whether Islam will be the main source or a source of legislation in the constitution.

I’m still waiting for a judge or anyone to show me anywhere in the Constitution where there’s a separation of church and state. We didn’t lose; we were robbed.

We want a constitution that the people will accept and have a greater possibility that the voters will say ‘yes’ to.

We do not support a coup. We have always operated within the means of the Constitution.

We should enforce the article in our constitution that Iraq should not be a transit point or base for destabilizing neighbors, … We should deal with these issues humanely and fairly, but firmly.

We need to unite and maintain peace as this incident can divert Iraq from the constitution to violence,

I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It was in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. We were a democracy…But I...

The vote has shown clearly that the majority are opposed to the proposed constitution. As we had said before, my government will respect the wishes of Kenyans.

insulted by a campaign that has attempted to amend the Constitution, and in too many states we’ve seen discriminatory amendments that would deny hospital visitation and domestic partnership legislation.

And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in...

If the constitution passes in a non-amicable way, the violence will increase.

Having two different structures of relationships creates a stigma the New Jersey constitution does not allow.

All indications we are getting … are encouraging and positive for a ‘Yes’ vote for this constitution. This would be really a major achievement, … So my guess is, yes, it will be passed.

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them...