They said the proposal was tantamount to writing discrimination into the Constitution.
If there is little political will to realize a goal, putting it into the Constitution will not help.
"The best way to secure my position is to get it into the Constitution."
Most of these recommendations were rejected by the federal government, and did not make their way into the new Constitution that was enacted in 1982.
We're not trying to deprive the citizens from their right to get into the Constitution.
Major changes were brought into the Constitution by this amendment:
Republicans, he said, "want to write bigotry back into the Constitution."
Placing that into the Constitution is going to be problematic for a lot of people.
French unions are strong in part because the right to strike is written into the Constitution.
"You don't write a gamble like that into the Constitution."