Constitution Quotes

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As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each… — James Madison
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written… — Thurgood Marshall
Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some… — Abraham Lincoln
While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts of… — Alexander Hamilton
In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist… — Joseph Story
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a… — Alexander Hamilton
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary… — James Madison
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No… — James Madison
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;… — James Madison
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent… — Thomas Jefferson
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that… — Thomas Jefferson
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and… — Alexander Hamilton
The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow)… — Thomas Jefferson
A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any… — Alexander Hamilton
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it… — Alexander Hamilton
Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United… — Ronald Reagan
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our… — Ronald Reagan
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A… — Alexander Hamilton

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