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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.
In America, we must always place constitutional values over authoritarian control.
I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.
Somewhere along the line a convention developed that the opening of a film was just a laundry list of credits. There was no incentive to complicate an area that was settled.
We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.
I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats.
The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn't just a villain's charter.
Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system.
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
We need to cut the pensions and annuities of parliamentarians, regional councilors, and employees of constitutional bodies.
The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal injunctions.
I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.
Southern Baptist Convention's EC president Frank Page tells me: "If I'm told I have to marry same sex couples I will refuse."
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
Anyone who takes a seat in the Bundestag does so within a Europeanized constitutional framework.
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.
What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights.
We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.
Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention.
Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.
I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.
However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.
Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.
I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.
I believe that open criticism of any institution is necessary in a democracy, to safeguard the constitutional order.
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.
Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history.
A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional and what is not.
Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.
Let's be clear about one thing everyone should know: Affirmative action is constitutional.
If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.
The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it.
The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.
Our constitutional system is founded on democracy: the will of the people, not the unchecked rule of judges.
Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
[Democratic National Convention] was high, it was exciting. The hotel that I stayed at, they had music in the lobby and [Hillary] Clinton life size cutouts.
Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.
But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
When Britain signed up to the European Convention and its later protocols, the words 'universal suffrage' were deleted from the 'right to vote' article.
Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.
