No act is more contrary to the spirit of our democracy and Constitution—or more rightfully resented by a Negro citizen who seeks only equal treatment—than the barring of that citizen from restaurants, hotels, theaters, recreational areas and other public accommodations and facilities.

The Presidency and the President has many functions and many responsibilities, many given to him by the Constitution, and others suggested to him by the pressure of events.

How can we improve on the Constitution?

Everything that I can constitutionally do will be done to prevent the outbreak of hostilities in that section.

The framers of our Constitution reached a solution now recognized as one of the most significant advances in the history of representative government.

And if ever we lose that part of the system they set up, we will lose the United States as we know it.

Any treaty or executive agreement in conflict with this Constitution shall have no force or effect.

The power of the Government of the United States is in the people, and when you don't exercise that franchise which the Constitution guarantees you, and you get bad government, you have nobody but yourselves to blame for it.

The principles for which we are fighting are just as old as the Constitution of the United States, and just as new as the Democratic Platform of 1948.

My approval and acceptance of them springs not alone from my personal conviction but equally from the compelling mandate of my oath of office to support the principles of the Constitution.

I will use my powers with a full sense of my responsibility to the Constitution and to my country.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and as President of the United States, and acting jointly and in full accord with the Prime Minister of Great Britain, I hereby authorize, on the part of the Government of the United States, the creation of a joint Great Britain-United States board to be known as the Combined Food Board.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, and in order to define further the functions and duties of the Office for Emergency Management of the Executive Office of the President.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, as President of the United States and as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and for the purpose of assuring the most effective prosecution of war procurement and production, it is hereby ordered as follows:

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and for the purpose of assuring the most effective prosecution of war procurement and production, it is hereby ordered as follows:

The Mexico Constitution has that 33rd Article, which gives the Mexican Government authority to expel anyone.

candor and a sense of duty with regard to the responsibility so clearly imposed upon me by the Constitution in matters of legislation leave me no choice but to dissent.

In our country, in this Government and under our Constitution there is no union of Church and State, but rather a declared separation of them.