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The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.
The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
Who gets to decide the robotic bill of rights? It's going to be controversial.
Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
I think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights.
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
As a cosigner of the Veterans' Bill of Rights, I'm committed to making sure that veterans' issues remain a top priority in Congress.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?
People have lost what this nation was built on. I think our core values have been set aside... I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.
Contrary to what many secularists allege, the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not 'privatize' religion and quarantine it from the public square.
Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.
You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way, you can protect all religions.
I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator's Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.
If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.
The Bill of Rights is a remarkable document because it weaves into the fabric of our democracy the idea that government has a responsibility to protect individual liberty.
I have withdrawn from partisan politics. I am a constitutionalist who believes that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights must be central and the parties must be peripheral.
The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.
If Trump's actions as President reflect his campaign rhetoric, the ACLU and other capable organizations like it will be critical for defending the Bill of Rights for all Americans.
When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.
When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.
I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
In the past there has been debate as to whether or not traditional rights such as that to trial by jury might be protected or if a Bill of Rights should extend into areas of social and economic policy.
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.
Enshrined in the Philippine constitution, which is similar to the United States, is the bill of rights: freedom of expression, freedom of the press. These are enshrined. And yet, freedom of the press has been curtailed.
Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.
America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.