#constitution

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes. ↗

— Charley Reese

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It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated. ↗

— William Rehnquist

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The Constitution was made for ordinary people. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote. ↗

— Mo Rocca

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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us. ↗

— Graham Nash

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The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters. ↗

— George William Norris

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I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights. ↗

— Jean O'Leary

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