They said that if you think that in procedural compliance [while the confession was made] there has been adequate adherence to constitutional values, you can accept the confession.
Unwilling to give the crowd a similar line, Paul found other ways to speak to the audience of hard-right activists, railing against "Hillary Clinton's war in Libya" and calling for adherence to constitutional rules for war-making.
"We don't even hold a unified set of views". Although the group endorses a few broad principles like the separation of powers and a faithful adherence to Constitutional text, Mr. Calabresi said there was much disagreement on particulars.
It's hard to think of a longer, more faithful adherence to constitutional principle than that which has been maintained by the physician turned legislator in the 30 years since.
As practiced, it violates several constitutional guarantees, including one requiring adherence to judicial procedures when people are detained.
Steadfast adherence to equal constitutional rights, however, was "the only honorable and legal position that can be taken," Mr. Mondale said.
This heartened the Neo-Jacobins, who organized new clubs called "constitutional circles" to emphasize their adherence to the regime.
Places like the museum and Rohwer camp exist to remind us of the dangers and fallibility of our democracy, which is only as strong as the adherence to our constitutional principles renders it.
In those brief 17 minutes, Dr. King pushed America forward to a new era of tolerance and adherence to U.S. constitutional mandates on personal freedom and egalitarianism in calling for racial equality and an end to institutionalized discrimination still pervasive, even in the nation's capital where King spoke, a century after the Civil War.
"Adherence to structures of constitutional government, capitalism, freedom of religious and political association, free speech and intellectual tolerance," he says, has produced a soldier who can "kill like none other on the planet".
