The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it.
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
History has shown us that on extraordinarily rare occasions it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak not the right to spend.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA the Second Amendment and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax the 16th amendment and the IRS.
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did why in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.