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Clause Quotes
The fine print that shapes how a nation is governed.
These clause quotes dig into the specific wording of the Constitution — from limits on excessive punishment to how broadly the Commerce Clause should be read.
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- Adequately
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The framers never intended an infinitely broad Commerce Clause that would let Congress dictate individuals' purchases.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.
- Equal Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The emoluments clause is in the Constitution for a reason: We, as Americans, need to know that the president acts in our best interests, not his own self-interest.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution grants Congress clear jurisdiction with regard to U.S. citizenship and immigration matters.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
- Far-Fetched
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- Nov 07, 2020
The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are for abiding by the Constitution and recognize that Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 enumerates the power of establishing 'an uniform process of naturalization' to the Congress.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of our job as quote-unquote 'celebrities' is that we can gather people around things that are important. I think it should be a requisite - there should be a clause in the contract that you have to give back.
- Fugitive
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- Nov 07, 2020