- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constitutional Amendment Quotes
Voices from the debate over rewriting the rules.
This page collects Constitutional Amendment quotes from speakers who argued for or explained specific proposed changes, whether about the flag, prayer in schools, or marriage law. Each quote reflects a moment where someone made a case for amending founding law.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my thinking has evolved as America has witnessed a clear cultural shift.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
- Desecration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.
- Amend
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- Nov 07, 2020
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
- Criminalize
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- Nov 07, 2020
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020