Constitution Quotes - Page 6

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

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

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated...

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

'National Security' is the root password to the Constitution.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

You have to let the people vote when it comes to a new constitution.

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this [anti-terrorism] legislation fundamentally violates that oath.

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.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

U.S. Constitution is under attack from Fundamentalist Islam and shari'a.