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Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge…

— Alexander Hamilton

Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free…

— Alexander Hamilton

The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate.

— Gavin Esler

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

— Anne Royall

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries…

— William H. Seward

If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in…

— Ron Paul

“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived…

— David E. Wilkins

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other…

— Frederick Douglass

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery…

— Angelina Grimke

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain…

— Thurgood Marshall

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

— Robert Dale Owen