Quotes About Constitution

I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the American Constitution.

The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.

Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

We are not at all to wonder [...] that we having but some few superficial ideas of things, discovered to us only by the senses from without, or by the mind, reflecting on what it experiments in itself within, have no knowledge beyond that, much less of the internal constitution, and true nature of things, being destitute of faculties to attain it.

his principles could not be made to agree with that constitution and order which God had settled in the world

This provision is made in a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consistent with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional.

We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.

the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

The list of frequently used nouns included: struggle for peace, woman, love, constitution, deputy, congress, delegation, friend, mother, little girl, salmon, sturgeon, red (black) caviar, champagne, vodka, watermelon, cherry, sour cherry, horseradish, and beefsteak. "Fini!" exclaimed Piri happily: she was done gluing the mirror.

Wilson worried that the Constitution itself would not survive: "a nation can't put its strength into a war and keep its head level; it has never been done."13

Sedition Act," a rider to the Espionage Act. The Sedition Act, which Wilson signed on May 16, 1918, made it illegal to speak, print, write, or publish any "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government, the Constitution, the military, or the flag—certainly the single most restrictive gag on free speech and freedom of the press in U.S. history.

En marzo de 1812 se aprobó, tras acaloradas discusiones, la desdichada Constitución por la que España debería regirse… Esta cita, que procede de un libro de texto escolar editado siglo y medio más tarde, durante el franquismo, refleja la postura del sector conservador de las Cortes de Cádiz y la larga proyección que las ideas reaccionarias tendrían en el futuro.

la Constitución de 1978, consensuada por todas —subrayo el todas— las fuerzas políticas y redactada por notables personalidades de todos los registros, había definido la España del futuro con nacionalidades y regiones autónomas, a punto de caramelo para diecisiete autonomías de las más avanzadas de Europa

My name is Richard Milhous Nixon. I swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. I was educated at Whittier College in Whittier, California, and I have seen the devil walk.