The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency. — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
You never know what cases are going to become significant and the Supreme Court is part of that story. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
Instead of minority and majority politics, if we try and give the same rights to all, it is not polarisation. This is… — Amit Shah Copy Share Image
In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights. — Jean O'Leary Copy Share Image
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to… — William Tyler Copy Share Image
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That's why we have appellate judges that are more than one judge because each of us, from our life experiences, will more… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the Constitution that says the president, as a celebrity, is supposed to weigh in in every local issue that… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The whole stress of Washington’s presidency, underlined by his farewell, was on the absolute necessity to obey the Constitution. As he said… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive… — George Washington Copy Share Image
To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up… — Sami Al-Arian Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all. — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law. — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two. — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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