#constitution

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#centuries #constitutional #counsel #court #discover

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people. ↗

— Larry Craig

#constitutional #courts #desecration #flag #issue

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#extraordinary #going #great #heads #i

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#constitutional #countrymen #faith #henry #jefferson

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#awakened #constitution #conventions #debates #know

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#american values #assaults #brink #constitution #declaration

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#church #clear #constitution #government #i

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#constitutional #department #issues #justice #obligation

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

— Elizabeth II

#been #british #constitution #puzzling #will

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#constitutionally #defined #enshrined #federal #federal law