Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
Antonin Scalia
PurposeRightAmendmentWhatever
The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home.
Thomas Hardiman
HomeInsideOutsideNeedAmendment
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.
Kenny Marchant
CongressVoteFlagAmendmentPass
Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes.
Eliot Spitzer
GunImpactViolenceCreateAmendment
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.
Bernie Sanders
PowerPoliticalCongressAmendment
The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion.
Paul Singer
FashionLongAuthorityAmendment
In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
W. E. B. Du Bois
ConstitutionAmendmentSlaveUnited
EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
G. Edward Griffin
SilverPrintingAmendmentEmpower
The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.
Max Baucus
DecisionsWayAmendmentSupreme Court
I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.
Jean O'Leary
SupportAmendmentUsedAttackUnion
The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.
Trey Gowdy
First AmendmentFirstAmendment
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Mary Cheney
MarriageKnowPresidentAmendment
Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition.
Dinesh D'Souza
LawGivingVoteRightAmendment
The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.
Deborah K. Ross
SafetyGunImportantAmendmentVery
The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.
William J. Clinton
SayAmendmentTwoLifetimeShould
The most cogent principle that can be drawn from traditional limitations on the right to keep and bear arms is that dangerous persons likely to use firearms for illicit purposes were not understood to be protected by the Second Amendment.
DangerousBearRightAmendmentArms
We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.
Henry Cuellar
MeSayingWillAmendmentLineUsed
I support the Second Amendment. But for God's sake - how can we knowingly pass bills and laws that are in direct opposition to saving kids' lives?
David Hogg
GodSupportAmendmentOpposition
Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.
CreditCredit CardCapAmendment
The Second Amendment is the one that really protects all of our liberties that we are given by our Lord, and our God-given rights, and are protected under the Constitution.
Paul Broun
ConstitutionAmendmentRightsLord
The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
Ted Cruz
Bill Of RightsAmendmentRightsPart
I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
Gabriel E. Gomez
ThinkYouBill Of RightsAmendment
We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.
John Hickenlooper
GovernmentPeopleTraditionAmendment
There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
John Thune
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