#constitution

If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

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The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#any #appoint #consent #constitution #does

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#slavery #time

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#constitution #house #into #intolerance #representatives

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#between #constitutional #constitutional amendment #going #i

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period. ↗

— John Bolton

#period #religious #says #test #under

A Constitution should be short and obscure. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#obscure #short #should

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. ↗

— Robert Bork

#because #change #congress #constitution #constitutional

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. ↗

— Al Gore

#constitutional #creativity #democracy #democratic #democratic system

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

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