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Constitution Quotes by John C. Calhoun
- The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.
- To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system…
- How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves?…
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