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How to use the word constitution in a Sentence?

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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

– Grover Cleveland

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2 months ago

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.

– James Madison

added by Normando
3 months ago

In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

– John Marshall Harlan

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3 months ago

What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it… What is this liberty that must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not the freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check on their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few -- as we have learned to our sorrow. What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias...

– Learned Hand

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4 months ago

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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4 months ago

The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.’

– Walter E. Williams

added by Normando
9 months ago

What is needed here is a return to the Constitution of the United States. We need to have a complete divorce of Bank and State. The old struggle that was fought out here in Jackson's day must be fought over again... The Federal Reserve Act should be repealed and the Federal Reserve Banks, having violated their charters, should be liquidated immediately. Faithless Government officers who have violated their oaths of office should be impeached and brought to trial. Unless this is done by us, I predict that the American people, outraged, robbed, pillaged, insulted, and betrayed as they are in their own land, will rise in their wrath and send a President here who will sweep the money changers out of the temple

– Louis McFadden

added by Normando
1 year ago

They are human rights lawyers and all they did was practice China’s constitution and laws. How do you convince the outside world that China is a country ruled by law by handing them such heavy sentences?

– Luo Shengchun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Despite the noise and confusion generated by Dominion and their opportunistic private equity owners, the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution and protected by New York Times v. Sullivan.

– Fox News

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1 year ago

We advocated that the rights of Indigenous peoples should be written into our constitution, after more than a decade of campaigning, we were able to push for constitutional amendments, and now there is a clearer protection for our language, education and land rights.

– Icyang Parod

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When gig companies can spend over $200 million to pass a law that violates our state’s constitution instead of investing in workers, it’s clear that California needs better safeguards for our democracy.

– David Huerta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law – which cost police officers their lives, we also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: That Tucker Carlson is not credible.

– White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those who support this law today, all those who voted for this law today are violating the Constitution. All of them are alienating us from Europe, i said on day one that I would veto this law, and I will do that.

– Salome Zourabichvili

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Working to protect the Constitution and due process has been a cornerstone of my work in Congress. Speaker Kevin McCarthy made his commitment today that I will lead the effort to amend the House Rules to provide due process and prevent the politicizing of committee removals in the future.

– Nancy Mace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We want members of Congress to be able to do their jobs without constantly being hauled into court, but it defies logic and probably the Constitution for Congress to think it can wave a wand and call it everything it touches quote ‘informal legislative factfinding.’.

– Elliot Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.

– A.E. Samaan

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1 year ago

I make a decision based on if I’ve been able to deliver for the state, have I been able to support the Constitution and the oath I’ve taken, I think I have, is there more I can do in different, other areas? I don’t know.

– Joe Manchin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Congress has the purse strings. i would be careful about trying to restructure the US Constitution, i think we should leave it alone and make sure it operates correctly.

– Brian Moynihan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Constitution guarantees that people incarcerated in jails and prisons may not be detained beyond their release dates, and it is the fundamental duty of the State to ensure that all people in its custody are released on time.

– Kristen Clarke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Police officers have every right to make their political choice, that doesn’t interest me, for me that’s not important, what is important is the respect for the constitution, it’s that them, in exercising their public duty comply with and respect the constitution.

– Ricardo Capelli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir, it is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.

– Reverend King , Dr. Chavis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I try to stick by the Constitution, and the voters elected him to serve, he's going to have to build the trust here, and he's going to have the opportunity to try to do that.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I try to stick by the Constitution, the voters elected him to serve. If there is a concern, and he has to go through the Ethics (Committee), we’ll let him move through that. But right now, the voters have a voice in the decisions, not where people pick and choose based upon what somebody’s press has. So he will continue to serve.

– George Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I try to stick by the Constitution, the voters elected him to serve.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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