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The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

The Second Amendment is not really a right.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments.

Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.

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.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

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.

Protecting our second amendment will make America great again.

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

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.

I am a very strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

The 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby and immediately that baby is a citizen.

The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.

The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

Hillary Clinton is apparently very happy about [Barack] Obama clamping down on your 2nd Amendment rights.

Donald Trump is a staunch believer in the Second Amendment.

There's nothing in the 14th Amendment about anchor babies.

To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.

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.

The14th Amendment does not require birthright citizenship. It doesn't mention it.

It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment

I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front.

No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals' rights. The same must be true of the Second.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.

We are going to save our Second Amendment.

We need a Supreme Court that in my opinion is going to uphold the Second Amendment, and all amendments, but the Second Amendment, which is under absolute siege.

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

That's in the First Amendment?

Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.

Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before.

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.