Frank Murphy
Frank Murphy

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

George B. McClellan
George B. McClellan

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas

President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand.

James Bovard
James Bovard

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

Jeffrey Tambor
Jeffrey Tambor

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.

Jon Ossoff
Jon Ossoff

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

Judith Butler
Judith Butler

Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

Katie Pavlich
Katie Pavlich

Trump did not reverse a policy that allows the mentally ill to purchase firearms as reporters, media pundits and anti-Second Amendment activists have recklessly claimed. Instead, he's given millions of individuals their constitutional rights back.

Loretta Lynch
Loretta Lynch

The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.