428 Quotes About Constitution

  • Author Lorenzo Snow
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    We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them to frame the Constitution of the United States

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  • Author John Marshall
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    ...the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

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  • Author Kenneth Eade
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    . Checks and balances had left the building, along with the ghost of Elvis, the U.S. Constitution, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Washington. The transformation from a hypocrisy based façade of government to mob rule was complete.

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  • Author Jan-Werner Müller
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    Populist constitutions are designed to limit the power of nonpopulists, even when the latter form the government. Conflict then becomes inevitable. The constitution ceases to be a framework for politics and instead is treated as a purely partisan instrument to capture the polity.

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  • Author Dan Crenshaw
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    As John Adams said, ‘Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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