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  • Their preamble's emphasis on "recognition of mass injustice" evokes a feeling of solidarity, but "recognition" will not put the foreclosed back in their homes.

    Mark Cassello: Occupy Chicago Regroups After Recent Success Mark Cassello 2011

  • Their preamble's emphasis on "recognition of mass injustice" evokes a feeling of solidarity, but "recognition" will not put the foreclosed back in their homes.

    Mark Cassello: Occupy Chicago Regroups After Recent Success Mark Cassello 2011

  • Obama went further, saying that the preamble's call for "a more perfect union" initiated a project, to make the Constitution a means for its own transcendence.

    Two Speeches on Race Wills, Garry 2008

  • Following the preamble's lead, the election law, the Representation of the People Act, requires every political party to aver its commitment to socialism.

    India's Socialist 2008

  • ASSOCIATED PRESS Who exactly is included in the preamble's "We The People" anyhow?

    News 2011

  • ASSOCIATED PRESS Who exactly is included in the preamble's "We The People" anyhow?

    News 2011

  • Who exactly is included in the preamble's "We The People" anyhow?

    News 2011

  • Who exactly is included in the preamble's "We The People" anyhow?

    News 2011

  • When supposedly in-the-know Russians and Americans publicly disagree on what the preamble's restrictions mean, it is legitimate, indeed, essential, to investigate and debate the issue.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2010

  • The Confederate Constitution implemented a ban on a religious test for office in Section 4, notwithstanding the preamble's invocation of God's blessing on the Confederate experiment. line-item veto expressly included, but Congress required a two-thirds supermajority to appropriate any funds not specifically requested by the President, giving Jefferson Davis in a real sense more Constitutional power than Abraham Lincoln possessed - an irony, given the Confederate states 'putative objection to centralized power.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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