Adrian Cronauer Quotes

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

Every generation of Americans writes its own Constitution.

Constitutional reform is exasperatingly slow.

I continue faithful to the measure of Parliamentary reform brought forward by Mr. Pitt. I am firmly persuaded that at present a prodigious majority of the people of this country are adverse to the measure. In my view, so far from being an objection to the discussion, this is rather a recommendation.

Whenever there's a bad law, it can be repealed or nullified.

When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it's time to change the laws, not circulate edicts.

It has been believed for a long time in Japan that things such as the constitution can never be changed. I say we should change our constitution now. The U.S. has amended its constitution six times, but Japan has done it zero times.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.

I ran for Congress because I want to help change the way we do business in Washington, D.C.

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

Americans have to have a link with their Constitution. They have to understand it in the context of their own time.

One way for Constitutional change is the fact that [Supreme Court] justices are mortal.

Even if this opinion meets with a cold reception in the appellate courts we hope that it will at least have the effect of focusing the country ... upon the neglected method of considering constitutional amendments in conventions.

The Constitutional Convention is the only vehicle through which we can get a clear-cut and unequivocal decision of the people.

If the Constitution, as interpreted by the Court, prevents the proper solution of our social and economic problems, should we do something to the Constitution to meet the difficulty, or should we do something to the Supreme Court?