Constitution Quote by William H. Seward Download Open image “There is a higher law than the Constitution.” — William H. Seward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constitution Higher Law
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents. — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts. — Hannah Copy Share Image
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Laws are no stronger than the devotion to them by the people who live under them — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern,… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you try to come into our state and force our businesses to collect a sales tax in manner that violates our laws or… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
