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How to use the word constitutional in a Sentence? Page #28

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The chiefs have assured that they understand their priority is to protect people’s constitutional right to demonstrate.

– Ron Davis

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9 years ago

There is talk in some areas of Berlin of prohibiting it, But can you really prevent people from using their privately owned homes as they want? It raises a whole lot of constitutional and human rights questions.

– Martin Buck

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9 years ago

If 'Emperor Obama' ignores the American people and announces an amnesty plan that he himself has said over and over again exceeds his constitutional authority, he will cement his legacy of lawlessness and ruin the chances for congressional action on this issue and many others.

– Michael Steel

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9 years ago

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.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

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10 years ago

The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

– James Madison

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10 years ago

A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. (Misattributed)

– Benjamin Franklin

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13 years ago

My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights.

– Ronald Reagan

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14 years ago

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

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14 years ago

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

– Abraham Lincoln

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14 years ago

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

– Archibald Cox

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14 years ago

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

– Ronald Reagan

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14 years ago

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

– William Hazlitt

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14 years ago

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.

– Albert Einstein

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14 years ago

The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it.

– John Whitehead

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14 years ago

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