The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress or the states to adopt same-sex marriage laws nor does it forbid them from maintaining traditional marriage laws. – Trent Franks
I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. – Sonia Sotomayor
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. – Salmon Portland Chase
That’s the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow. – Steve King
I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go. – Walter Cronkite
The critical role of Congress in the adoption of international agreements was clearly laid out by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution. And it’s a principle upon which Democrats and Republicans have largely agreed. – Tom Cotton
Under the Constitution, giving ‘aid and comfort’ to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. – Walter Cronkite
Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president’s highest duty is to protect the security of this country – our national security. – Wesley Clark
And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative. – Sharron Angle
As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don’t intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last. – Zachary Taylor
Historically, Congress hasn’t paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes. – Tim Griffin
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean. – William H. Seward
Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime. – Viktor Orban
I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States. – William G. Boykin
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the ‘supreme law of the land’, in most instances they’re not even law. – Sonia Sotomayor
Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn’t have been a Constitution of the United States – not one that governed the American South, at any rate – because the South wouldn’t have ratified it. – Timothy Noah
Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them. – Samuel Freeman Miller
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution. – Ted Olson
The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever. – Trent Franks
I think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights. – Virgil Goode
It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty – fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds. – Ted Cruz
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. – William J. Brennan, Jr.