Like the Constitution he tucked in his pocket, like our nation itself, Robert Byrd possessed that quintessential American quality, and that is a capacity to change, a capacity to learn, a capacity to listen, a capacity to be made more perfect.
And many Alabamians like the restrictions the constitution places on the state's power.
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.
I'll take decisions, I'll see the environment, and obviously I wouldn't like to violate the constitution.
Imagine what the British constitution would look like if the principle of cabinet government were to be further weakened.
As expected, after bending the Pakistani constitution like a pretzel, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf won his bid for reelection on Saturday.
Under Papua New Guinea's constitution, tribes like the Maisin are legal owners of their traditional lands.
Once re-elected, he would certainly like a general election, but the constitution does not give him the clout to arrange it forthwith.
By Saturday, however, he wanted the American people to know that he was not commenting on "the wisdom" of putting such a mosque by that hallowed ground - just "the right" of its backers like Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to do it, pursuant to the Constitution's protection of religious freedom.
From listening to our constitutional scholars, we learned that debates about impeachment are like the wall protecting the fort of the Constitution's separation of powers.
The Western media are centering their attention on what the next Egyptian constitution will look like and whether it will guarantee rights for women and minorities.
The opposition parties, former allies turned enemies and the like, are now joined in demanding Mr Thaksin's resignation but without any regard for the constitution.
Like every other citizen under the U.S. Constitution, though, those in such positions must be presumed innocent of charges of mis- or malfeasance until proven guilty.
The more federalist members, including France and Germany, would like these to be subject to majority votes under the new constitution, while Mr Blair will insist on keeping the national veto over such sensitive areas.
Again, that's not necessarily the Constitution at work, but it does sound like another pair of high-profile lips are eligible for Friday's kiss-in.
Like Tony Blair, he is starting with the party's constitution.
Yet the messages that Spanish politicians are using to sell the constitution would be completely alien in more Eurosceptic countries like Britain.
The problem, though, is more fundamental: Just like our constitution, it turns out that words on paper cannot, of themselves, control what people do.
All of which may feel like life-and-death issues that go to the heart of our constitution and national identity.
He clearly understood his pledge to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic and sounds like he'll do it.
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Either proposition would have astounded James Madison, often described as the guiding spirit behind the Constitution, who rejected state-established religions and, like Alexander Hamilton, proposed a central government so strong that it could veto state laws.
Of course, whenever I hear the word Constitution I think of Ron Paul, whom I actually like.
Putin cited examples of other long-serving world leaders, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected president four times before congress amended the Constitution to allow for only two terms.
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"I would appoint judges who I believed were strict constructionist judges, who would interpret the Constitution based on what it means, not what they would like it to mean, " he says.
Americans concluded that widespread violation of prohibition laws (not just statutes, but an actual part of the Constitution) was evidence that the law was too strict and that laws like prohibition which are so onerous that otherwise law-abiding citizens broke them, undermine the rule of law.
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Some, like Feisal Rauf, go so far as to insist that shariah is compatible with the U.S. Constitution.
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Originalists like Justice Antonin Scalia say judges can find out everything they need to know by examining the text of the Constitution and laws and regulations.
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Just like McVeigh, he is entitled to all the rights and privileges afforded citizens under the U.S. Constitution and does not forfeit them because he appears to have committed heinous crimes.
Like term limits or not, here one is, in Argentina's constitution just as in that of the United States.
The opposition would like to have the chance to form a government in the present parliament, but this is not an option under the constitution.
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