Mary Cheney Quotes
I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.
Cheney, Mary. Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life. Threshold Editions, 2006.
When people see the process as unfair and insensitive to minority rights and issues— rammed through by one group which wants to dictate how the rest should live, they never even reach the point of considering carefully the actual language and making compromises with that. They just oppose the constitution in toto usually by finding the 2 or 3 most egregious clauses and harping on those with no attempt to improve them and rejecting the entire constitution.
When the Constitution was presented for ratification there were many who demanded changes before ratification to insure the rights of individuals and States. Others, agreeing that amendments were necessary, argued for passage after ratification. As soon as the Constitution was ratified, the first 10 Amendments—The Bill of Rights—were also passed.
Citizen of U. S. & Israel
Mary Claire Cheney is the younger daughter of Dick Cheney, the former vice president of the United States, and his wife, Lynne Cheney. She is politically conservative and is involved with a number of political action groups. She married her wife Heather Poe in 2012, and in 2013 was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.
