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The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process ... DAVID SOUTER
The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection c... MICHAEL KINSLEY
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segre... ARLEN SPECTER The first amendment problems were paramount for us. So we decided that the ban violated our rights a...
JAMES ROGERS
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended i... REBECCA MACKINNON I think it's extraordinarily unfair that in the last minute the government has chosen to intervene.
LANNY BREUER We are alleging on behalf of a lot of different people that have been beaten by the Westminster poli...
DAVID LANE
Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep p... REBECCA MACKINNON Can you tell me what's more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their F...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE History will show that Gov. Schwarzenegger had a chance to end the last vestige of legal discriminat...
FABIAN NUNEZ If one business' rights are violated, it opens the door for the mayor and police to shut down other ...
JOSEPH ROBINSON Documents that were shown to us were forged on a number of occasions,
SERGEY LAVROV Federal intervention in this case represents a blatant act of government intimidation and will have ...
BILL QUIGLEY Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, incl...
MARTY MEEHAN
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal ... BURKE MARSHALL I think marriage is a civil contract. I don't know what they're raving about. We should all have the...
JOSEPH HANSEN
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal ... BURKE MARSHALL
Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or co... KAPIL SIBAL In a society where equal protection under the law is supposed to be the noble standard, there is no ...
NEAL BOORTZ
I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government,... MARK MCKINNON The broad phenomenon is that states have to grapple with the issue of immigration because of failure...
MARK KRIKORIAN Right now, the state [government in Trenton] has done more than the federal government on chemical-p...
CHARLES WALSTON On behalf of Florida citrus growers who experienced damage earlier this year, we appreciate this fin...
ANDY LAVIGNE The right to vote is the foundation of our democracy, and an essential protection of that right is t...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. T... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co... WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING
My belief has always been . . . that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights ar... RONALD REAGAN That gives us credibility in the state houses and in Washington, D.C., that Farm Bureau speaks on be...
LINDA JOHNSON Eric Dietz, director of Indiana Homeland Security, validated that message by saying each county will...
BILL GOSNELL
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that quest... BEN NELSON It doesn't really matter whether it's the federal government that oversees the protection of endange...
DAVID HOGAN Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights...
MILLARD FILLMORE
The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decide... TONY KUSHNER The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicia...
RONNIE MUSGROVE Whatever the government of Pakistan has may have stated in its letter to Interpol must be a perversi...
FARHATULLAH BABAR The volume of information in this case, the time necessary for information to be gathered and transm...
CHRISTINE FERGUSON
We are asking the government to intervene on behalf of all Canadians. CBC should be providing local ... AIDAN WHITE
There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why... FIDEL CASTRO Oral history represents a democratization of the history-telling process ... this thing of having hi...
STETSON KENNEDY I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate ag...
PAM BONDI We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. . . . We find no such Const...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS We are prepared but we are learning a lot from what happened. It puts us on notice to do a better jo...
BONNIE REED Training is key in this whole field. There's always the day-to-day learning on how to work the pumps...
BOB BLANCHARD
To reach its result, the court necessarily has had to find within the scope of the 14th Amendment a ... WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes... JOE WURZELBACHER
It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses o... JAMES MADISON New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in ...
TOM GOLISANO
We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. cit... TED CRUZ
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be... MAYA ANGELOU If it's a shared computer, then the spouse has equal rights to get on it and share what's on it.
DAVID BANISAR I am a true constitutionalist, and whether it is our state's rights, personal property rights or...
MIKE BOUCHARD Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their righ...
JAMES KENT On a number of occasions, the documents shown to us were forged, in particular, they contained fake...
SERGEY LAVROV
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not gi... CHRISTOPHER GADSDEN A state version of the Human Life Amendment has never been attempted. We believe, as the pro-life mo...
DAVID ROGERS
Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the ... MONICA JOHNSON
This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for all, and we have always managed to move cl... LORETTA LYNCH The Supreme Court has in place a legal structure which protects abortion rights in this country, and...
CHARLES T. CANADY Virginia enjoys an equal-to status with the federal government when it comes to meat inspection. Rig...
ANDREW SMITH That creates a 28-month process for what the federal government said should be a 24-month process.
KURT SCHAEFER Searching Jane and Mary Doe for evidence beyond the scope of the warrant and without probable cause ...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depe... THOMAS JEFFERSON On key issues of equal rights, fairness, and access to justice, he has repeatedly found ways to keep...
TED KENNEDY
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who ... NOAM CHOMSKY Congress has an obligation to clear the legal fog by passing my bill to require the federal governme...
SUZAN DELBENE State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pen...
EUGENE FAMA
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes ... BETTY FORD With an extraordinary amount of federal employees authorized to use 100% official time on behalf of ...
PHIL GINGREY Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat o...
NICK CLEGG
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of p... AYN RAND The amendment to the Constitution will lay a solid legal foundation for the establishment of a compl...
JIN ZHIGUO
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws VOLTAIRE Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the...
DINESH D'SOUZA The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based...
ALBERT JAY NOCK
I'm encouraged by the federal government's efforts to pre-position resources to prepare for Rita's l... JOHN CORNYN People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content ...
JONATHAN ZITTRAIN
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spani... JOSE RIZAL
The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that po... CHARLIE PIERCE We can no longer rely on the federal government to be our principal source of information, ... The f...
WILLIAM BRATTON
And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly... GARY ACKERMAN This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men shou...
BENJAMIN TUCKER This legislation will allow the federal government to enhance its law enforcement resources so that ...
ERIC STERN The Michigan courts would not acknowledge this man's First Amendment rights, but we're confident tha...
KARY MOSS
It isn't enough just to pray for rain, ... These are the times when our farmers need the full suppor... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE The publication of caricatures may not have transgressed any legal boundaries, but it certainly viol...
TERRY DAVIS I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, that I will pursue j...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Gove... JAMES MADISON We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of fe...
DOUG ELMENDORF He is the leading voice on border security and illegal immigration. We feel that we need to address ...
JOSH ROBINSON We have no reluctance to sue the federal government. Our involvement will be based on how we feel ab...
WILLIAM SORRELL The code of conduct makes it clear a federal judge is not permitted to run in state or local governm...
DAN HOVLAND
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be alwa... THOMAS JEFFERSON
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to... THOMAS JEFFERSON The federal government is responsible for the protection of (archaeological) sites, and we do ? to t...
JAN LAWSON The disconnect between federal and state law puts the city in an awkward position. If you get involv...
HELEN HOLMES PEAK Top federal, state and local officials failed to process and act on information at their disposal. W...
DAVID MARIN
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to i... LYSANDER SPOONER All evidence indicates that Judge Roberts would use his undeniable impressive legal skills to bring ...
WADE HENDERSON Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars...
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