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I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.
Betty Ford
Life
Rights
Equality
Sometimes
Believe
Citizens
Cabinet
Outspoken
Equal
Equal Rights
Felt
Amendment
Necessity
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.
Bill Shuster
Marriage
Seniors
President
Liberal
President Bush
Benefit
Record
Remains
Redefining
Judges
Provided
Amendment
Upheld
Committed
Stopping
Bush
Taxes
Cutting
Who
Activists
Prescription
Second
Second Amendment
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
Bob Barr
Government
Constitution
State
Despite
Laws
Bear
Individual
Supreme
Arms
Supreme Court
Court
Enact
Continue
Affirming
Amendment
Unequivocally
Human
Just
Against
Decisions
Human Right
Keep
Fundamental
Right
Second
Second Amendment
Two
Guarantees
The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.
Bradley A. Smith
Wisdom
Government
Political
Decision
First
Disclose
Control
Citizens
Glad
First Amendment
Beyond
Supreme
Sought
Court
Testament
Amendment
Political Speech
Did
Place
Act
United
Speech
I've been a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. And I'm going to continue to do that.
Brian Kemp
Strong
Strong Supporter
Supporter
Continue
Been
Amendment
Going
Second
Second Amendment
If you read the 13th Amendment, it doesn't talk about narratives of racial difference. It doesn't talk about ideologies of white supremacy. It only talks about involuntary servitude and forced labor.
Bryan Stevenson
You
White
About
Only
Involuntary
Talk
Supremacy
Forced
Read
Ideologies
Talks
Narratives
Labor
Amendment
Difference
Racial
Servitude
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
Byron White
History
Speak
Spend
Protects
Amendment
Right
I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.
Cass Sunstein
Self-Defense
Believe
Possess
Hunting
Guns
Strongly
Both
Purposes
Individual
Amendment
Creates
Use
Right
Second
Second Amendment
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein
History
Matter
Segregation
Understood
Ban
Amendment
Race
Fourteenth
Basis
Today's uses of the Second Amendment may invoke James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, but they have a lot more to do with interest-group politics.
Cass Sunstein
Today
Politics
Alexander
Madison
More
Invoke
Hamilton
Lot
Amendment
May
James
Uses
Second
Second Amendment
First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.
Cliff Stearns
Service
Rights
Valuable
First
Respected
Those
Has-Been
Firearms
Generations
Highly
Supporters
Industry
Sportsmen
Around
Been
Provide
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Product
Second
Second Amendment
Desirable
Millions
Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.
Connie Sellecca
Game
Will
First
Country
Profit
Our
Corporate
Hides
Members
See
Veil
First Amendment
Industry
Sake
Amendment
Closely
Behind
Children
Order
Video
Video Game
Exploit
Across
Million
Watching
I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.
Connie Willis
Vote
Marriage
Member
Colorado
Am
Ban
Amendment
Did
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
Native
Militia
A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages.
Coretta Scott King
Gay
Marriage
Nothing
Marriages
Would
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Protect
Traditional
Amendment
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
Form
Banning
There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
Dan Webster
Never
Because
Heard
Offered
Amendment
Process
Bills
Basically
If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.
Dan Webster
You
Debate
Power
Down
Every
System
Member
Out
Push
Pyramid
Spread
Limits
Opposed
Heard
Amendment
Closes
Gets
Which
Forth
Bill
File
Bills
Base
Now
Chance
I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.
Dan Webster
Happy
Mistake
Everybody
Rule
Out
Pointed
Wrong
Amendment
Did
After
Found
Number
I view it as a threat to my and my family's well-being whenever anyone seeks to erode or take away my Second Amendment civil liberty.
Dana Loesch
Family
Liberty
Threat
Civil
Civil Liberty
Seeks
Take
Well-Being
Amendment
Whenever
Anyone
View
Away
Second
Second Amendment
My father is a retired FBI agent. I have guns in my house. I'm not against the Second Amendment.
David Hogg
Father
Guns
Retired
House
Amendment
Against
Agent
Second
Second Amendment
We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.
David Hogg
Repeal
Amendment
Want
Second
Second Amendment
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
David K. Shipler
Tricks
Lies
Within
Courts
Permit
Shield
Scope
Amendment
Officers
Taught
Against
Fifth
Use
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Dennis Kucinich
Abortion
First
Criminalize
Favored
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Never
Wade
Off
Overturn
Roe
Amendment
The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is about protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government.
Derrick Grayson
Government
Tyrannical
Ourselves
Hunting
About
Protecting
Amendment
Second
Second Amendment
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
People
Law
Matters
Reservation
Defined
Enshrined
States
Federal
Permanently
Governed
Amendment
Sovereignty
Specifically
I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.
Dina Titus
Gay
Marriage
Gay Marriage
Definitely
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Support
Amendment
He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.
Dixie Lee Ray
Property
He
Repeal
Private
Affects
Private Property
Amendment
Fifth
Right
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