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...

We have no intention at all to delay the constitution-drafting process. But sufficient time is needed to establish a firm, stable and disciplined democratic state.

It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy...

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

This proves to the world that Iraqis are writing their own constitution. We want to be sure to write something that keeps Iraq intact, in land and in people.

We fulfilled our oath of office to discharge our duty according to the Constitution and when elected officials do that, democracy works,

Montana has a very narrow line-item veto as defined by the constitution and presented by the Constitutional Convention, … I don’t believe the governor can strike a condition without striking an appropriation.

We don’t want to violate the constitution before our first meeting.

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to...

There is no transparency there … they want this constitution to pass despite the will of the people.

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

The draft constitution is ready and will be presented to the Iraqi people, who are known for their intelligence, to give their verdict on October 15,

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build...

Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline...

I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to...

When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars,...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…

While they are not being prevented, [Article 6,] Section 22 of the Constitution provides that they have to get the authority from the President through their department heads,

We want a good, solid constitution. We don’t want to force a deal on any group that they’re uncomfortable with.

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us,...

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

Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.

The dead should not rule the living.

The meeting with Mian Nawaz Sharif today is aimed to discuss a joint drive for the revival of the Constitution and democracy, and for ending the dictatorship.

If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to the Iraqis in an Oct. 15 referendum. Legally we do not need the parliament to...

[So the Wrights were crushed — at first — when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that the Constitution does not stop cities from seizing homes to make way for commercial development projects.]...

This is the end of the road. In the end, we will put this constitution to the people to decide.

The US officials are more interested in the Iraqi constitution than the Iraqis themselves, because they promised their people that it will be done August 15.

There have been two overwhelmingly important votes in the last four and a half years regarding the Constitution, … One, on Sen. Ashcroft when he was up for attorney general, and today’s vote with respect...

I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.