#amendment

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. ↗

— Noah Webster

#united-states

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#cover-up #first #first amendment #red #red tape

And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#believe #covenant #exactly #finally #i

Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#another #change #connected #constitution #continuous

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#balances #believe #checks #consideration #constitution

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#amendment #dominates #energy #first #first amendment

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#bad #bad guy #because #belief #controlled

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amendment #compromise #constitution #embodied #expedient

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amendment #authorizing #concern #core #framers

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#amendment #change #civil #civil disobedience #disobedience