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...

I must have missed the fine print disclaimer in my school textbooks while learning about the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. It must have read: Warning – by learning this material it will make...

The answer of Solon on the question, ‘Which is the most perfect popular govemment,’ has never been exceeded by any man since his time, as containing a maxim of political morality, ‘That,’ says he, ‘where...

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

There’s nothing to suggest that in 60 years, she’s ever thought or written a word about the U.S. Constitution. This is an opportunity squandered.

Efforts are being made to reach a consensus over the draft constitution during the coming hours,

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble...

in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in...

On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality.In politics we will...

It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men… and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious...

People may want to simplify the chain of command and make one person accountable, but under our federal system, … responsibility starts at the local level and works its way up from the bottom. And...

The governor feels that’s a less egregious option than changing the constitution, but he still opposes both ideas.

I am happy about this decision because I want this to be done democratically, even though we support the constitution.

The president admits that there should be a meeting between us to discuss pertinent issues on the constitution and the way forward.

The Constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country

say ‘No ‘¡ ‘, to the draft constitution which will divide the country and lead to a civil war.

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right or that it’s too much of a public safety hazard, don’t see the danger...

The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public due to changing times, it should be changed. That goes for...

The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the...

I love my country, not my government.

It’s been about ethnicity and political payback, not the constitution.

I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go...

In the last few years, various laws protecting farm workers were approved in California, thanks to the UFW. The Times doesn’t make it clear that the constitution was changed in order to include those who...

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

The three basic material rights — continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

We have agreed [to] a draft constitution, … Of course, it is not a perfect document. But I think it is one of the best constitutions in the Middle East.

…the Constitution is an invitation for the president and Congress to struggle for the privilege of directing foreign policy. Although the president is the principal foreign policy actor, the Constitution delegates more specific foreign policy...

Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history. The idea he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of...

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful....

Today, a major step was taken toward the revision of the constitution.

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22.

Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law–the supreme law–was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not...

Putting it in the state constitution doesn’t save it.

Considering the current situation surrounding the SDF, we can’t say that it would fall within the framework of the Constitution, because of such issues as the enactment of the law concerning emergency contingencies in areas...

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be....

I think if this constitution passes as it is, it will worsen everything in the country.

Most Romans believed that their system of government was the finest political invention of the human mind. Change was inconceivable. Indeed, the constitution’s various parts were so mutually interdependent that reform within the rules was...

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion.