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Letter "C" » Constitution
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«As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.»
Author: Felix Frankfurter
(Jurist)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
deem, in writing, justified, mischievous, notions
«The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot. Anyone failing to attend morning school prayer will be shot. The number one enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual rights. Sports broadcasts will proceed as scheduled. Shut up, be happy, obey all orders without question. At last everything is done for you.»
Author: Jello Biafra
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
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«From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.»
Author: Leon Jaworski
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
Above the Law, generations, interpreted, reaffirm, reaffirmed, reaffirming, reaffirms, so as to, The Watergate, Watergate
«But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.»
Author: Lysander Spooner
| About:
Constitution,
Government
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, powerless, unfit, unfits, unfitted, unfitting
«And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods»
Author: Thomas Babington
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
lastly, periods, revision, revisions, stated
«Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Constitution,
Government
| Keywords:
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«Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
constitution, constitutions, interfere, interfered, interfering, liberties, maintained, On Liberty, safeguard, safeguarded, Safeguarding, safeguards
«Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.»
«A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Freedom
| Keywords:
civil, civil liberties, civil liberty, civil rights, cocktail, cocktails, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, destroyers, Klansman, lawbreaker, lawbreakers, liberties, Molotov, Molotov cocktail, rioter, rioters, The Destroyers
«A Constitution should be short and obscure»
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