If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.
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.
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.
They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.
We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.
I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.