Denying the president a constitutional voice is the real threat to our system of separated powers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.
The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.
I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.
Power's not what the Constitution was about.