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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

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President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

~David Mamet

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The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

~David Mamet

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Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.

~David Petraeus

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The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

~David Souter

Topics: Constitution Deliberately Due Equal Equal Protection Freedom Freedom From Good Guarantees Law Like Open-Ended Process Protection Rights Searches Share Unreasonable

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Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.

~David Souter

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The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.

~David Souter

Topics: Altogether Amount Because Certain Compete Constitution Contract Each Good Good Things Grants Guarantees Language Many Never Once Open-Ended Other Realized Simple Things Uses

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The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.

~David Souter

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The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.

~David Souter

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When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.

~David Souter

Topics: Affirmative Citizens Congress Constitution Executive Exercises Governments Impose Judicial Local May Obligations Officers Ordinary Powers State Well

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