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«Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.»
«It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.»
Author: Sandra Day O'Conner
| About:
Constitution,
Value
| Keywords:
amendment, embodied, expedient, Expedients, framer, Framers
«If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.»
Author: Thurgood Marshall
(Jurist, Lawyer)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
amendment, films, Mean Business
«It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Government,
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, Executive power, government of the United, government of the United States, practice of law, President of, President of the, President of the United, President of the United States, settled, United States Constitution, United States government, vest, vested, vests
«[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Authority,
Constitution,
Justice,
Politics,
Religion
| Keywords:
injunction, injunctions, instruction, posterity, recklessly, reject, religious instruction, Rules of, sudden, The Rules, trifle, violate
«It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Genius,
Politics
| Keywords:
American Constitution, ample, enduring, fertility, institutions, invention, political institutions, rooted, shelter, The Genius
«In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
bloodshed, civil, oath, strife, Texas, trampled
«I will not lay down and put this narrow, stubborn agenda ahead of our families, ahead of our Constitution, and ahead of our values. We are a proud nation that respects the rights of the minority, values the separation of church and state, and believes in honesty and personal responsibility.»
Author: Senator John Kerry
(Senator)
| About:
Constitution,
Honesty,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
agendas
«Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane them down to a level»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Body,
Constitution,
God,
Mind
| Keywords:
Almighty, A level, God Almighty, inequalities, No Policy, plane
«If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Constitution,
Principles
| Keywords:
attachment, free-thinking, free thought, imperatively
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