I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
Constitution Quotes
No man had once a greater veneration for Englishmen than I entertained. They were dear to me as branches of the same parental trunk, and partakers of the same religion and laws; I still view with respect the remains of the Constitution as I would a lifeless body which had once been animated by a […]
Do the people of this land… desire to preserve those (liberties) so carefully protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving […]
An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed.
There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers who formed the United States Constitution had such a mastery of legal principles: “Why, they had so few books.”
The Bill of Rights – The Original Contract With America. Accept no substitutes. Beware of imitations. Insist on the genuine articles.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
The Constitution… till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. George WashingtonTo every description of citizens, indeed, let praise be given. But let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of American happiness, the Constitution of the United States.
If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
This is a Government constituted for particular purposes only; and the powers granted to carry it into effect are specifically enumerated and disposed among the various branches. If those powers are insufficient, or if they are improperly distributed, it is not our fault, or within our power to remedy. The People, who bestowed them, must […]
