Change Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable…

— Alexander Hamilton

Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be…

— Alexander Hamilton

The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual…

— Alexander Hamilton

That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own…

— Aristotle

The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while…

— Walter Bagehot

“Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized…

— Frank Herbert

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

— Stephen Breyer

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It…

— Thomas Paine

“Modern national constitutions usually contain references to international law.”

— Anonymous

State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What…

— Eugene Fama

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

— Lyman Beecher

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic…

— Melville Fuller