Quotes with constitutional

  • The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.

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  • Walter Bagehot A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Antonin Scalia A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bernhard Schlink As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Arlen Specter 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.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Bob Barr Clearly, the court today has ignored the constitutional right and responsibility of Congress to pass laws protecting citizens from dangerous and addictive narcotics...
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Al Sharpton If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Abe Fortas It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
    Source: Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Adrian Cronauer It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Blake Farenthold It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Al Gore Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Anthony Kennedy The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
    Anthony Kennedy
    American lawyer and jurist (1936 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Benazir Bhutto The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bayard Rustin The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Carl Rowan The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government off our backs is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Walter Bagehot The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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