Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
Quotes about amendments (16 Quotes)
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.
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.
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
I think you'd be hard-pressed to factually state that those laws or amendments have had any real impact on the states' ability to attract creative talent.
I'm always a little cautious, there's a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I've been more concerned about over regulating, going too far.
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.
The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from 'prohibiting the free exercise' of religion or 'abridging the freedom of speech.' The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the governments authority.... This Court has not had recent occasion to consider the nature of the substantive right safeguarded by the Second Amendment. If, however, the Second Amendment is read to confer a personal right to 'keep and bear arms,' a colorable argument exists that the Federal Governments regulatory scheme, at least as it pertains to the purely intrastate sale or possession of firearms, runs afoul of that Amendments protections.
Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.
Amendments Amendment I Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition (1791) Amendment II Right to Bear Arms (1791) Amendment III Quartering of Troops (1791) Amendment IV Search and Seizure (1791) Amendment V Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrim.
This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted.