Political Quotes

“We could certainly do so, and undoubtedly we could provide employment to numerous constitutional scholars and courts to either interpret what we had said in the constitutional amendment and what we said in the later statute, or whether or not the two corresponded with one another. We have examples of this kind of Constitution writing in many States which have constitutions that did go into statutory detail that are 4, 5, 10 times longer than the Constitution of the United States and are universally criticized as not stating general principles. The original House Joint Resolution 1, on which the Senator from Idaho has worked so diligently over the years, is cast in Constitution- type language. Members can agree or disagree with the fundamental principle that it establishes, but it does deal with a fundamental principle. This proposal by the Democratic leader deals with nothing at all that is fundamental, and it takes its language out of a statute which has been changed several times since it was originally passed in the mid-1970's. It does not belong in the Constitution of the United States.”