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The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That`s not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.

The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to the state legislatures.

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined for us in our Constitution.

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.

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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.

The only way the avoid a constitution crisis, and I'm not saying we're there yet, is to reassure the public that the person leading the government is someone who has loyalties other than to himself, not loyalties to the foreign governments that helped him financially.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and every power not granted thereby remains with the people.

The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in our Constitution and highly distinct system of government. In other words, it's the Constitution's fault. Something truly catastrophic was bound to happen sooner or later.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can

The racist rhetoric that extends all the way to the top of the AfD shows that one must assume that an attitude is prevalent - not just in the grassroots, but also among party leadership - that is not consistent with the basic values reflected in our constitution.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.