#constitution

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

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#constitution #country #defend #great #liberty

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#before #british #british empire #cabinet #canada

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#any #blindly #brave #brave new world #canadians

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#been #british #constitution #puzzling #will

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution. ↗

— Laurence Tribe

#constitution #convincing #enough #i #i believe

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#constitutional #difference #imposed #individuals #intellectual

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#chinese #citizens #constitution #dangerous #express

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#class #class citizens #constitution #does #first

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. ↗

— Billy Graham

#framers #freedom #freedom from #freedom of religion #meant