In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.
The Establishment Clause. . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders. . . that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.
There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause
He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.
I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving. " That'd be the bottom line.
I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.
We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter. . . [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us.
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.
With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
God? Nope. " requel's smile told me she was joking around to make this easier for me "santa clause? No again.
I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.
In 1938, I. G. Farben sent a letter to (a major drug firm), one of its American subsidiaries, (that). . all advertising contracts must contain '. . . a legal clause whereby the contract is immediately cancelled if overnight the attitude of the paper toward Germany should be changed.
It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.
There's a political reality about impeachment. It's purely a political process. The interpretation of "high crimes and misdemeanors" can reach a long way, all the way to sex in the Oval Office, which was an absurd use of the impeachment clause.
