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Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.
It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
At times of constitutional uncertainty and social division, parliament needs a greater, not a lesser role, in defining our future.
Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.
In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.
And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.
The Senate has a constitutional responsibility to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court, and I take that responsibility very seriously.
Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages.
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
In the Senate, I will work to shrink the size of our federal government to its core Constitutional role so the private sector can thrive.
Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
The Democrats want to bring in the Third World because these are, by and large, people who have no experience with Constitutional democracy.
The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.
The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.
I think that Roe v. Wade will ultimately be overturned. I think it'll fall of its own weight. It does not have any constitutional underpinnings.
In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.'
I'm very upset that the Supreme Court ruled that citizens don't have standing to challenge the faith based initiatives on constitutional grounds.
I believe that the federal government has significant constitutional powers, but I don't think it's effective to impose pipelines on communities.
Short of the passage of a Constitutional Amendment protecting marriage as between one man and one woman, the U.S. Supreme Court has the final say.
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.
It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.
Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.
It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws.
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.
We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.
Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis.
What gun owners would support policies that are blatantly designed to strip them of their constitutional freedom? To put it bluntly: gullible gun owners.
Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.
More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. Most people charged with crimes forfeit their constitutional rights and plead guilty.
I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.