The founding fathers of the U.S. have probably captured these truths better than anybody, and codified them into the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.
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According to the words prescribed by the US Constitution, Mr Obama swore he would "faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States".
The new German constitution of 1949 was about limiting powers of any one part of government, just like in the Constitution of the United States.
Well, if you're familiar with the Constitution of the United States, there's a takings clause.
And, unlike guns, the right to own cats is not protected by the Constitution of the United States.
Either Barack or I will raise our hand and swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
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But my first interest is I take an oath of office to the Constitution of the United States.
Such conduct by people who have sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States is a scandal.
"This hearing has shown that this legislation is fully consistent with the Constitution of the United States, " Feingold said.
"The fact is that the Constitution of the United States provides for two senators from every state, " he said.
They took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, I trust the Constitution of the United States, but today it is most important that I believe in you.
It was on September 17, 1787, that 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the Constitution of the United States.
The Constitution of the United States, for example, would not have been written had it not been for the compromise of small states and large states, at the Constitutional Convention.
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Because on the one hand, of course, a theocratic form of government is not consistent with the Constitution of the United States or the freedoms that it enshrines, or the government that it prescribes.
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Our real focus should be on the candidates and their views on the issues, because one of them will stand before the nation and take the oath of office and swear to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States.
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In particular, the totality of what is now known about her views concerning the role of foreign law in American courts suggest both a lack of candor before the Judiciary Committee and a judicial philosophy that is at odds with the Constitution of the United States.
The bill of rights attached to the constitution of the newly formed United States of America in 1789 guaranteed free speech and a fair trial, but no right to be taught to read and write.
Adopted in 1917, the constitution of the United Mexican States borrows heavily from American constitutional and legal principles.
If you subscribe to the importance of the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, it becomes difficult to take a position that the existence of affirmative action was ill conceived from the outset as to deny that certain defined segments of American society were disadvantaged by who they are would be to deny reality.
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The challenge is based on the appointments clause of the Constitution, which requires that "Officers of the United States" be appointed by the President or by the head of an agency.
No president is exempt under our U.S. Constitution and the laws of the United States from accountability for personal misdeeds anymore than he is for official misdeeds.
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Like term limits or not, here one is, in Argentina's constitution just as in that of the United States.
In her concurring opinion, Justice Ginsburg writes that the mandate would also stand under the Commerce Clause ( found at Article One of the United States Constitution, section 8, clause 3).
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Gordon Wood. (Applause.) The 2010 National Humanities Medal to Gordon Wood for scholarship that provides insight into the founding of our nation and the drafting of the United States Constitution.
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As I mentioned in my remarks, the legal authority is derived from the Constitution as well as the authorization of force by the United States Congress.
For instance, for history it says pupils should understand the emergence of an independent United States and its constitution - accompanied with a stricture to respect its ethnic and cultural diversity.
Article VI of the Constitution requires that all Senators, Representatives, Members of the State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers of the United States and the States shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution.
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