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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.
- Initiative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
'419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them.
- Bear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The applicability of the Establishment Clause to public funding of benefits to religious schools was settled in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, which inaugurated the modern era of establishment doctrine.
- Framers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court's decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state's borders.
- Motorcycle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I missed the NFL by an inch. IRS problems... No money coming in, and not that many options left because I signed that stupid no-compete clause with WWE. I had no one to blame but myself.
- Contrasted
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.
- Equal Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that if Justin Trudeau came back from the NAFTA negotiations with a new clause - 'Oh, by the way, there's going to be a new legislature that Americans will send members to that will pass laws that will bind Canada' - I don't believe Canada would ever go for that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020