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Letter "C" » constitutional
«The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.»
Author: Byron R. White
| Keywords:
cognizable, constitutional, deals, design, illegitimacy, nearest, The Court, vulnerable
«The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
constitutional, layman, laymen, unconstitutional
«To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.»
Author: Martin Van Buren
(President)
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«We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
amendment, Amendments, constitutional, constitutional amendment
«The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived»
Author: James Madison
(President)
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Government,
People,
Power
| Keywords:
branches, Branches of, charter, chartered, charters, constitutional, derived, fountain, legitimate
«The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| Keywords:
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«This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
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«Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| Keywords:
constitutional, pile, spokesman, spokesmen, The Establishment
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