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"My daughter is in the lawsuit because you need that for standing."

Daughter,

"A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that."

Constitution, Will

"And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit."

Law, Research

"But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose."

America,

"Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether."

Business, Government, Religion, Needs

"I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."

Government, Religion, Society, Constitution

"I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers."

Life, Daughter, God, Being

"I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat."

Government, God, Idea, Religious

"I was considering running for political office."

Office, Running

"I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs."

People,

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"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."

Samuel Adams, American Revolutionary

Constitution, Country, Duty, Freedom

"Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum."

Emma Bonino, Italian Politician

Constitution, First, Open

"Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846."

Leonard Boswell, American Politician

Constitution, December, Order, State

"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."

Martin Van Buren, American President

Constitution, Country, Desire, Duty

"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."

Robert Byrd, American Politician

Constitution, Extreme, Fate, Fathers

"And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."

Robert Byrd, American Politician

Constitution, President, Vote, Wrong

"Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world."

Robert Byrd, American Politician

Constitution, Freedom, Ideals, World

"The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States."

Salmon Portland Chase, American Politician

Constitution, States

"The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity."

Henry Clay, American Statesman

Constitution, Posterity, States, United

"Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum."

George Clymer, American Politician

Constitution, Slavery