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It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.

— James L. Buckley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Perjury before Congress is perjury to the American people and an affront to the fundamental principles of our republic and the rule of law. Such behavior cannot be tolerated.

— Paul Gosar

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.

— Karen Hughes

The Court has long held that the Constitution protects certain fundamental rights that are not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution's text, while at the same time emphasizing that courts must proceed with great caution in recognizing such rights.

— Paul Watford

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

— Ken Starr

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

— Michael Kinsley

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

— Eliot Engel

I've learned that the Court will continue to change the meaning of the Constitution. Although all of the Justices have expressed the importance of judicial restraint, the Court inevitably makes new law every time it interprets the Constitution.

— Lisa Blatt

✗Opposing Perspectives

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

— Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

— Antonin Scalia