Amendments Quotes - Page 18

• If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.

  Julian Assange

  Law, Broken, Important

  "Sean Hannity Is Now a Big Julian Assange Fan". Interview, www.slate.com. September 7, 2016.

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• There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

  Julian Assange

  Law, Epidemics, Use

  "Sean Hannity Is Now a Big Julian Assange Fan". Interview, www.slate.com. September 7, 2016.

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• For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Struggle, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost all the cases brought up for personal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were by corporations. Freed slaves couldn't do it. In fact they were pretty much driven back into something like slavery by a north - south compact, that allowed former slave states to criminalize black life, which made a criminal force that was basically used as a forced labor force, up until the 1930s.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Labor Force, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

  Samuel Alito

  Thinking, Jewels, Firsts

  "Alito: Threat to Judicial Independence at Historic High" by Michael Scholl, October 4, 2006.

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• Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights.

  Samuel Alito

  Country, College, Rights

  Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, 130 S. Ct. 2971, 3015-16, 2010.

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• The Patriot Act makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to the assistance of counsel for your defense.

  Michael Badnarik

  Defense, Trials, Patriot

  "Good to be King: The Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.

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• The National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding.

  Robert Bork

  Thinking, Always Arguing, People

  "Advocates: Point and Counterpoint, Laurence Tribe and Robert Bork Debate the Framers' Spacious Terms". Miriam Bensimhorn, Life Magazine (Special Issue), Fall 1991.

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• We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

  Jill Stein

  Democracy, Needs, Firsts

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.

  Marisa Tomei

  Rights, Equal Pay, Stories

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When a person is on a watch list or a no-fly list, and I have the endorsement of the NRA, which I'm very proud of. These are very, very good people, and they're protecting the Second Amendment.

  Donald Trump

  People, Second Amendment, Watches

  "Donald Trump's debate transcript: analyzing his claims issue by issue" by Lois Beckett, Jon Swaine, Spencer Ackerman, Oliver Milman, Molly Redden, David Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2016.

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• When you have your staff taking the Fifth Amendment, taking the Fifth so they're not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the Fifth, I think it's disgraceful. And believe me, this country thinks it's - really thinks it's disgraceful, also.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Believe, Men

  "Here’s Why Hillary Clinton Emails Didn’t Get Much Attention Last Night" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 27, 2016.

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• No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

  James Bovard

  War, Order, Should Have

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• Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

  Stanley Fish

  Law, Numbers, Speech

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• The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

  Alan Keyes

  Religious, Exercise, Free Opinion

  Alan Keyes' Remarks at the Alabama Republican Assemblies Luncheon, www.keyesarchives.com. April 29, 2000.

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• First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Mind, Firsts, Clarity

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.211, Lulu.com

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• I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

  Frank Murphy

  Religious, Believe, Practice

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• Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

  Ben Nelson

  Convincing Evidence, Liberty, Done

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• Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their useful idiots. ... The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government and the Congress of the United States.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, School, Government

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• The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government's gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We've gotten out of control.

  David Malpass

  Thinking, Government, Gone

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• Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.

  Sheldon Richman

  Education, School, Mean

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• Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Doctrine, Establishment Clause, Firsts

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• I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed from traditional First Amendment jurisprudence, and that made sense before the Internet. Now there is an unavoidable link between First Amendment interests and the scope of copyright law. The legal system is recognizing for the first time the extraordinary expanse of copyright regulation and its regulation of ordinary free-speech activities.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Reality, Thinking, Law

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• Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.

  Kent Hovind

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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• The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.

  Ilana Mercer

  Nice, Men, Branches

  "Quacking Over Ducksters As Freedoms Go Poof". www.wnd.com. January 3, 2014.

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