#constitution

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#amendment #amendment rights #beliefs #believe #censorship

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. ↗

— Richard Mentor Johnson

#enforcing #observances #other #our #persuasion

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

#citizens #civil #civil rights #constitution #does

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#away #between #broad #constitution #country

To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed by the president or a governor, and perhaps override a veto. A Supreme Court justice need only persuade four other people. If he or she is not internally constrained by the authority of a text, he or she is not constrained. ↗

— Michael J. Gerson

#politics #politics-of-the-united-states #same-sex-marriage #scotus #united-states

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#defense #democracy #inspirational #romance #wisdom

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#change #constitutional #day #every #every day

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel? ↗

— Joe Biden

#father #feel #just #me #says

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#almighty #almighty god #believed #considerate #constitution

The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right. ↗

— John Conyers

#court #court decision #decision #documents #forbidden