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The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
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Hugo Black
American
Judge
Born:
Feb 27
,
1886
Died:
Sep 25
,
1971
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
Government
People
Weary
Country
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Shall
Institutions
Exercise
Existing
Overthrow
Amending
Revolutionary
Whenever
Inhabit
Who
Grow
Right
Belongs
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers
Learning
People
Prohibition
Earth
Would
Would-Be
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Smartest
Well
Pass
Years
Five
Amendment
American
Did
Anybody
Anything
Race
Works
Why
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers
Good
Learning
People
Money
Giving
Prohibition
Earth
Would
Promote
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Colleges
Instead
Smartest
Pass
Years
Five
Amendment
Did
Anybody
Anything
Race
Works
Found
Why
I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well.
Robert Mueller
Terrorism
History
Rights
Will
Wish
All Americans
Liberties
Must
Civil
Civil Liberties
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Only
Exceptionally
Know
Protect
Well
Judged
How
American
Us
Who
Even
Things
Disrupt
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
James Madison
Government
People
Power
Several
Constitutional
Only
Charter
Branches
Legitimate
Hold
Which
Them
Derived
Fountain
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Robert Jackson
Politics
Religion
Word
Matters
Nationalism
Petty
Other
Our
High
Citizens
Constitutional
Shall
Force
Opinion
Fixed
Confess
Official
Any
Act
Star
Prescribe
Orthodox
If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.
Malcolm X
Constitution
Citizen
Black
Gun
Own
Club
Every
Babies
Constitutional
Lawful
Fact
Dogs
Wolves
Article
Just
Being
In Fact
Little
Shot
Should
Rifle
Right
Number
Two
Guarantees
The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
Lynn Westmoreland
Vote
Fraud
Threat
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Voter
Voter Fraud
Greatest
Greatest Threat
Right
It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.
Mitch McConnell
Justice
President
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Check
Supreme
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice
Withhold
Court
Senate
Act
Right
Consent
I have no problem with responsible gun owners who own weapons for self-protection, hunting, or just sport. The ones who believe they have a constitutional right to 100-round magazines to fight off I don't know what - a zombie apocalypse? - try to shut down dialogue with threats and other macho posing because of their flawed beliefs.
Kurt Eichenwald
Fight
Problem
Try
Gun
Own
Down
Believe
Other
Macho
Hunting
Responsible
Weapons
Magazines
Threats
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
No Problem
Know
Sport
Because
Dialogue
Off
Owners
Just
Flawed
Apocalypse
Who
Beliefs
Right
Shut
Zombie
Posing
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