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> [“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-david-ledbetter/interpreters-when-challenged-on-their-manipulations-tell-us-the/)

[Mark David Ledbetter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-david-ledbetter/)

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> [Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-cleon-skousen/anyone-who-says-the-american-constitution-is-obsolete-just-because/)

[W. Cleon Skousen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-cleon-skousen/)

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> [The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-j-brennan/the-genius-of-the-constitution-rests-not-in-any-static-meaning-it/)

[William J. Brennan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-j-brennan/)

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> [It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyndon-b-johnson/it-is-the-genius-of-our-constitution-that-under-its-shelter-of/)

[Lyndon B. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyndon-b-johnson/)

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> [We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-j-brennan/we-current-justices-read-the-constitution-in-the-only-way-that-we-can-2/)

[William J. Brennan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-j-brennan/)

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