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The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
Elton Gallegly
Property
Constitution
Shall
Taken
Without
Private
Private Property
Amendment
Just
Public
Fifth
Use
Payment
Compensation
Guarantees
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
Emile Durkheim
Constitution
Society
State
Definite
Definitely
Possessing
Circumstances
Moral
Constantly
Disturbance
Mental
Only
Individual
Through
Taken
Maintain
Him
Himself
Equally
Causes
Surprise
His
Lacks
Organized
There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.
Emile Lahoud
Me
Constitution
Remove
President
Ways
High
Only
Could
Had
He
Terminated
Occupation
How
Israel
Lebanon
South
Accuse
Anyone
After
Treason
Violates
Two
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
Emma Bonino
Constitution
First
Only
Open
Step
Fair
First Step
Referendum
Discussion
Representative
Legitimacy
Granted
Drafting
Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.
Eric Holder
Work
Justice
Constitution
Will
First
Become
Ensure
Fair
County
Policing
Equitable
Continue
Ferguson
Louis
Department
Department Of Justice
St. Louis
Tirelessly
Places
Meaning
Engaged
Communities
Last
It's a fact that if Hillary Clinton is elected, the country's chance to have a Supreme Court that values the Constitution - and the genuine liberty and self-government for which millions have died - is gone. Not for four years, or eight, but forever.
Eric Metaxas
Constitution
Liberty
Values
Country
Gone
Fact
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Supreme
Supreme Court
Self-Government
Court
Genuine
Years
Clinton
Forever
Died
Eight
Which
Elected
Four
Millions
Chance
Our rights to live and to love each other, those rights are greater than any other right in the Constitution, period.
Eric Swalwell
Love
Constitution
Rights
Live
Other
Our
Those
Period
Greater
Than
Any
To Love
Each
Right
Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.
Eula Biss
Constitution
Protection
Minority
Our
Idea
Around
Got
Built
I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.
Eva Longoria
Myself
Me
Constitution
People
Important
Active
Think
Sides
Way
Comprehend
Both
Both Sides
Studying
Democrat
Also
Understand
Been
Politically
Who
Right
I am an originalist, to begin with. So, I am a constitutional conservative. I believe that the Constitution enshrines some universal ideals that make our country strong and that are consistent with truth, and so that's the basic thing.
Evan McMullin
Truth
Constitution
Conservative
Strong
Country
Believe
Our
Consistent
Some
Constitutional
Ideals
Make
Am
Begin
Thing
Basic
Universal
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.
Ezra Taft Benson
Love
Spiritual
History
Constitution
Nation
Every
States
Latter
Constitution Of The United States
Prophetic
Inspired
Days
Operations
Lord
Saint
His
Which
Should
Base
United
Foundation
United States
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
Felix Frankfurter
Constitution
About
Touchstone
Said
Ultimate
Itself
To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
Ferdinand Marcos
Future
Constitution
Together
Experience
Single
Past
Our
Once
Correct
Chart
Write
New
Come
Cry
Course
Motion
Errors
Based
Present
The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.
Francis Biddle
Constitution
President
Bothered
Greatly
Any
Wartime
Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.
Francois Hollande
Constitution
Law
Year
Deficit
Would
Parliament
Propose
Budget
Budget Deficit
Reached
Until
French
Balanced
Balanced Budget
Reducing
Provides
Syria, for all its problems, at least has a constitution that guarantees equal protection of citizens. Around the world, we have seen that this is essential where Christians are a minority and are not protected.
Franklin Graham
Constitution
World
Protection
Problems
Minority
Seen
Syria
Citizens
Equal
Protected
Equal Protection
Around
Least
Essential
Where
Christians
Guarantees
The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
Gary Krist
Constitution
Money
Before
State
Severe
Ways
City
Ability
More
Through
Had
Written
Come
Limits
Chicago
Up
Any
Getting
Size
Grew
Taxes
Realized
Illinois
Things
Raise
Bonds
All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
Gary Locke
Constitution
Money
Focus
States
Able
Budgets
Balanced
Print
Print Money
Priorities
Establishing
Either
Required
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
George Sutherland
Constitution
Abandoned
Well
Comfort
Pinch
Provisions
Upheld
May
It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is.
George Takei
Constitution
Important
Our
All Americans
Know
Vulnerable
How
American
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
Giacomo Casanova
Health
Food
Constitution
Made
Excellent
Always
Congenial
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
Ginny Brown-Waite
Property
Constitution
Interpretation
State
Ten
Ten Commandments
Allowing
Doing
Commandments
Texas
Same
Flawed
Poor
Display
Kentucky
During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.
Greg Abbott
Time
Justice
Constitution
Judge
Strict
Interpretation
Would
Would-Be
General
Laws
My Time
Had
Attorney
Attorney General
Goal
Application
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
Gustav Stresemann
War
Constitution
World
Result
Old
Feeling
Thinking
Changed
Collapsed
Structure
Economic
Germany
Order
Social
Social Order
World War
Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
H. P. Lovecraft
Man
Respect
Constitution
Training
Thought
Tremendously
Mental
Varies
Through
Environment
Limit
Always
His
According
Modes
Certain
Elevated
We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
H. P. Lovecraft
Man
Change
Constitution
Degree
Considerable
Slightest
Physical
Perceive
Mental
Allow
Period
Altered
Insufficient
Been
His
Existence
Historical
Any
Short
Should
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