[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?
I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.
To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.
It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore establishing the Constitution, will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act.
The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.
Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to what happens in the university, particularly in the classroom, and to the importance of the teacher having the right to teach and share what he or she has learned, has proven her competence to teach, having gone through a series of tests and certifications including research and writing to demonstrate her abilities and knowledge.
Two Soviets. . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering. "
When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not interfere with religious affairs. Now, if our marital relations are not religious, what is? This ordinance of marriage was a direct revelation to us, through Joseph Smith, the prophet. . . . This is a revelation from God and a command to his people, and therefore it is my religion. I do not believe that the Supreme Court of the United States has any right to interfere with my religious views, and in doing it they are violating their most sacred obligations.
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.
I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf. . . the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. . . . This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth,. . . is fundamental to our free society.
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
Ask a fellow if he favors organized prayer in the public schools. If he says 'No' he's a liberal. If he says 'Yes' he's a conservative. If he says, 'Public schools? The Constitution grants the government no power to run any mandatory tax-funded youth propaganda camps,' you have your hands on the wily libertarian.
The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.