Amendments Quote by Anonymous

The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that…

— Frank Chodorov

“the Fifteenth Amendment”

— Beverly Jenkins

“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…

— Noel B. Reynolds

The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.

— Max Baucus

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they…

— Elihu Root

“Four Millions of people heretofore declared by the highest tribunal in the land, not citizens of the United States, nor eligible to become so,…

— Ron Chernow

I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people…

— Samuel

Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation.…

— James Madison

I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent…

— Alexander Hamilton

“When economic interest is seen behind the political clauses of the Constitution, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying…

— Howard Zinn

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to…

— Sam Brownback

“The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the…

— Woodrow Wilson