quotes about Amendments
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Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?
-- Antonin Scalia -
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When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
-- Arlen SpecterSource : "Interview with Senator Arnold Specter". Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 3, 2009.
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
-- Byron White -
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
-- Corrine Brown -
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It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
-- David StrathairnSource : "Fictional character: William Seward". "Lincoln", 2012.
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I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.
-- Dina Titus -
I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
-- Ed Case -
Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.
-- Eleanor Smeal -
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The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
-- Ernest Istook -
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
-- Harlan F. StoneSource : United States v. Darby Lumber Company, 312 U.S. 100, (124), 1941.
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The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ***** is a constitutional infringement.
-- Herb Kelleher -
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
-- John Engler -
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The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.
-- John Longenecker -
There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
-- John ThuneSource : "Sen. Dianne Feinstein talks national security; Sen. John Thune on Romney veepstakes". "Fox News Sunday" with Shannon Bream, www.foxnews.com. May 13, 2012.
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In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
-- Ken BuckSource : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.
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I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
-- Mary CheneySource : Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books
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The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
-- Michael Kinsley -
While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
-- Mike Pence -
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
-- Neil deGrasse TysonSource : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.102, Open Road Media
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It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.
-- Sheila Jackson Lee -
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The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.
-- Trey GowdySource : "Congressman Trey Gowdy On Leaks: ‘I Thought All Reporters Aspire’ To Go To Jail" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.
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That's in the First Amendment?
-- Christine O'DonnellSource : "Media Twist O’Donnell-Coons Exchange on Church and State". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. October 19, 2010.
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The Second Amendment is not really a right.
-- Rosie O'Donnell -
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor -