#constitution

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#around #ask #because #children #constitution

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#confer #considered #constitution #convinced #european

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#competent #constitutionally #contest #elections #i

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#constitutional #one-man #parties #political #political parties

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge. ↗

— Robert Bork

#content #democracy #given #judge #law

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. ↗

— Robert Bork

#ask #constitution #endorsed #ideas #judges

If the federal government won't secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to complement federal efforts in a constitutional manner and protect the security of its citizens. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#border #citizens #complement #constitutional #efforts

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#countries #followed #like #loads #nice

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#constitutional #constitutional amendment #gay #gay marriage #i

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#acts #constitutional #especially #last #last year