“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve the conflict between individual liberty and political order, as well as from the creative pens of individual draftsmen.” — Noel B. Reynolds Copy Share Image
A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image