Framers Quotes - Page 4

• Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Majority, Minorities

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

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• We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Times Are Changing, Games, Video

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" podcast, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

  Antonin Scalia

  Jobs, Practice, Times Of Crisis

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• The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

  William O. Douglas

  Law, Silence, Lips

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• A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .

  Bill Moyers

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.

  Melville Fuller

  Two, Views, Law

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• As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

  Garry Wills

  Peers, Constitution, Madison

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• A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.

  Noah Webster

  Military, Law, People

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• The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states. The framers, as The Federalist Papers attest (see No. 28), saw the state militias as forces that might be summoned into action against the federal government itself, if it became tyrannical.

  Joseph Sobran

  Rights, Government, Second Amendment

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• What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They wanted federal judges to be appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to serve for good behavior.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Independent, Judging, Advice

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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