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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.
The Congress plays a central role in our constitutional structure.
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.
Federalism is an intrinsic part of our constitutional set-up.
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion.
I'll never forget my first moment of looking out on a convention audience with my mouth open like they were kidding me.
In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.
There have been 44 constitutional referenda in Australia and only eight have succeeded.
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
There is no constitutional basis for the federal government to be mandated to assist with student debt.
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of convention.
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.
I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic.
No migrant of any religion has a constitutional right to come to the United States.
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.
I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Reservation is a socio-political necessity. Hence, there is a constitutional provision for it.
Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.
We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.
Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.
Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing.
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.
Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.
It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.
Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been.
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
The top two goals of every presidential nominating convention are to unify the party and to define the candidate for the grueling weeks ahead.
I believe that an independent and impartial judiciary is essential to our constitutional republic.
The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that kind of stuff.
The left loves the courts. They hate constitutional limited government.
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
At the Republican convention, there were lots of words used to describe Hillary Clinton, but warm, funny and caring weren't among them.
