Believe Quote by Pierre Trudeau

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that…

— Leon Bourgeois

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own…

— James Madison

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

— Aristotle

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and…

— George William Norris

For any state, I'm not going to recognize its rights to be a state with a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis whether it…

— Zohran Mamdani

“If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate entity, state and culture. The macro state is a federation of citizens who…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I consider the difference between a system founded on the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true difference between…

— James Madison

“A Constitution is] The set of the most important rules and common understandings in any given country that regulate[s] the relations among that country’s…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their…

— William H. Seward

It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the…

— James Madison

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united…

— Thomas Jefferson