Comment Quote by James Madison

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

— Roy Moore

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

— Roy Moore

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

— Rand Paul

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

“No government should be given too much power, or the people comprising that government will use the power in the worst ways possible; individual…

— Andrew Breitbart

“Our forefathers bequeathed to us far more than a republic. They willed to us an enduring Constitution that incorporates more thought and brainpower than…

— James D. Best

Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience;…

— Samuel Adams

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not…

— Roy Moore

“Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on…

— Ayn Rand

The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious…

— John Quincy Adams