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Quotations Freedom

Contributions and expenditures both involve core First Amendment expression because they further …

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Contributions and expenditures both involve core First Amendment expression because they further the discussion of public issues and debate on the qualifications of candidates integral to the operation of the system of government established by our Constitution. When an individual donates money to a candidate or to a partisan organization, he enhances the donee’s ability to communicate a message and thereby adds to political debate, just as when that individual communicates the message himself. Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in Colorado Republican Campaign Cmte v. F.E.C. 518 U.S. 604 (1996).

Quotations Freedom

I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays …

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I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays nine years ago no work on Natural History Science I have met with has made so great an impression on me & I do most heartily thank you for the great store of new views you have given me. . .As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite. . .I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you. . . And as to the curs which will bark and yelp — you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead — I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness Thomas Henry Huxley
1825-1895, Letter of T. H. Huxley to Charles Darwin, November 23, 1859, regarding the Origin of Species

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It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that , by …

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It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that , by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow, by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard urged against the admission of a bill of rights unto this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution. James Madison
I Annals of Cong. 456 (1834), the clause referred to contains the present Ninth Amendment. (1751-1836)