Constitution Quotes

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
Jesse Jackson

Vote, White, Male

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
Richard Pryor

Justice, Everyone, Says

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Success, Nation, Felt

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
David Mamet

Understand, President, Seems

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.
Robert Bork

Law, Study, Said

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
Robert Bork

Change, Less, Congress

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.
Sonia Sotomayor

Law, Though, Land

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all.
Michael Bloomberg

Time, Nothing, Winners

The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.
Michael Bloomberg

Change, Live, Worry

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
Antonin Scalia

Nothing, Sometimes, Few

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Government, Society, Successful

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Enough, Against, Maybe

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Good, Best, Despot

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.
Luke Scott

Freedom, Put, Action

What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.
Mark Levin

Government, Society, Reason

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
Sam Houston

Love, Her, Name

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
Antonin Scalia

Good, Experience, Conscience

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
Michael Badnarik

Government, Special, Place

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark

Ourselves, Faults

Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'
John Boehner

Saying, Country, Enough

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
Adam Weishaupt

Jealous, Against, Purpose

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Gerald R. Ford

Great, Men, Government

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
Jesse Ventura

Fair, Side, Gave

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
Queen Elizabeth II

British, Puzzling

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi

Fool, American, Himself

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
Karl Rove

Whatever, Word, Liberal

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
Giacomo Casanova

Health, Food, Excellent

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
Jon Bon Jovi

Rock, Before, Star

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
David Mamet

Best, Personal, Individual

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.
Caroline Kennedy

Kids, Three, Books

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