- Endorsing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constitutional Rights Quotes
Principles argued over, generation after generation.
These constitutional rights quotes reflect genuine policy disputes - from firearm-purchase rules to a proposed amendment addressing corporate campaign spending. Each speaker grounds their argument in what the founding principles were meant to protect. Related debates continue in Attack quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would make clear that corporations aren't people, that they - the framers of the Constitution never intended to give constitutional rights to corporations, the ones that we enjoy and cherish.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. Most people charged with crimes forfeit their constitutional rights and plead guilty.
- Firearms
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump did not reverse a policy that allows the mentally ill to purchase firearms as reporters, media pundits and anti-Second Amendment activists have recklessly claimed. Instead, he's given millions of individuals their constitutional rights back.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
- Necessity
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights in a lawful and appropriate manner, and I believe it is important that we provide individuals with specific reassurance that we value those rights.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first and foremost consideration is the safety of the people of the city of Minneapolis. And my first and foremost consideration is making sure that people can also express their constitutional rights peaceably.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020