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There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. ↗

— John Thune

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He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

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The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored. ↗

— Penn Jillette

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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people." ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

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First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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