“As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it - it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore.” PeopleThinkingGivingYearsWellsMayTwoTogetherLibertyWrittenHeardSmartHundredConstitutionIraqLibertarianSmart PeopleVery Smart Author:Jay Leno
“Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” so that no American ever again has to lie about who they are in order to serve the country we love. Republicans want to write discrimination into our Constitution. But the Wisconsin I know believes that with each passing year and each generation, our country must become more equal, not less.” KnowsWantWritingYearsBelieveMadeCountryLyingOrderAsksPresidentProgressGenerationsRepublicanGayEqualConstitutionDiscriminationPassingPassingsOur CountryHistoricGay RightsWisconsin Author:Tammy Baldwin
“And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock back hundreds of years. Back to a time before this nation declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator; not by their ancestry, not by their skin color, not by their gender, not by Congress, not by the Constitution, and not by the laws” MenWorldYearsActionLawNationsThis WorldColorEqualSkinsConstitutionCongressDetermineCreatorGenderClockAncestryProspectsAffirmative ActionAffirmativeSkin Color Author:Alan Keyes
“Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.” WantYearsAgeMilitaryConstitutionPrejudiceCurrentsVotingReplacementsCompulsoryMilitary ServiceVoting Age Author:Chen Shui-bian
“But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.” YearsMayGovernmentAgeNationsTermPayWiseConstitutionDebtBudgetsContractsBeing WiseLegislatureDebt FreeDebt By Founding Fathers Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I'm discriminated against all the time. I don't care. It doesn't bother me. [I'm discriminated against] because I'm old. I'm too old to get a job as a game show host. They say, well, the guy's 71 and in five years he'll be 76. And I'm a one per center, and I'm absolutely discriminated against as a one per center.” NeedsYearsWellsMeanShowsCareJobsGuyGamesBornNaturalFiveRightsConstitutionDon't CareCivil RightsGrantedAfrican AmericanI Don't CareBotherFive YearsHostNatural RightsInalienable RightsGame Shows Author:Chuck Woolery
“I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.” IfsYearsLooksStatesUnitedUnited StatesConstitutionUs ConstitutionDrafting Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms... If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 18th century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.” PeopleIfsWritingYearsDoeHas BeensStatesPoliticalSecretKnownRightsCenturyArmsBearsPeriodsProtectGunConstitutionRemainsBillsNotionCollectivesAmendmentsGun ControlSurvivingSecond AmendmentGuardedBill Of RightsRight To Bear ArmsThesisMilitiaGun Rights Author:Stephen Halbrook
“Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.” TryingYearsStatesShowsSchoolChristianLastsBeliefChurchReligiousPrayerUnitedChristianityUnited StatesConstitutionContraryFavorsSeparationFinanceInstancePresidentialFundLast YearChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateChristian FaithReligious EducationPrayer In School Author:Jimmy Carter
“Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments ... to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.” YearsGovernmentRightsEqualConstitutionMajorityPopulationDenyHomosexualityEqual Rights Author:Ronnie Musgrove
“The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 by martial law. The Fifteenth Amendment was enacted in 1870 by martial law. Military occupation of the Southern states did not end until 1877, twelve years after the end of the Civil War.” YearsWarEndsStatesLawUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryConstitutionCivil WarOccupationSouthernTwelveAmendmentsConstitution Of The United StatesMartial LawFourteenth AmendmentThirteenth Amendment Author:Eustace Mullins