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Constitution Quotes by Joseph Story
- Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes…
- Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise…
- [The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is…
- 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…
- The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes,…
- At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if…
- If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.
- The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of…
- No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend…
- No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend…
- The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to…
- How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be
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