American Quote by Timothy Noah

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

America ain’t three fifths bad.

— Eddie Huang

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

— Woodrow Wilson

Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no…

— Eustace Mullins

...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make…

— Joseph Sobran

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with…

— Mo Rocca

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

— Dan Coats

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't…

— Eamon de Valera

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

— William H. Seward

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose…

— Anonymous

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“the Southern States rebelled against the usurpation of their rights under the Constitution as sovereign states. It’s critical to remember that, until that time,…

— Joseph Befumo