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The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

The only way the avoid a constitution crisis, and I'm not saying we're there yet, is to reassure the public that the person leading the government is someone who has loyalties other than to himself, not loyalties to the foreign governments that helped him financially.

The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and every power not granted thereby remains with the people.

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in our Constitution and highly distinct system of government. In other words, it's the Constitution's fault. Something truly catastrophic was bound to happen sooner or later.

The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

The racist rhetoric that extends all the way to the top of the AfD shows that one must assume that an attitude is prevalent - not just in the grassroots, but also among party leadership - that is not consistent with the basic values reflected in our constitution.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution.

There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.

These liberals are the craziest things. The Constitution, they see things in it that aren't there and ignore things which are. The 14th Amendment, nothing to do with gay marriage.

The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

The Second Amendment is in the Constitution to help citizens protect themselves from people like Senator Dianne Feinstein who would come along, and if they could determine what words you can and cannot say, where and where you can't say them. The Constitution is there to protect you from mayors like Mike Doomberg who wants to tell you how big your beverage can be.

The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the [Constitution] is LEGAL.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

The United States Constitution builds politics right into the process of selecting federal judges. This third branch, the judiciary, is designed to have a longer view. To have individuals who are more insulated from politics. They're not elected directly. They're appointed for life. So, politics enters, but it's also, controlled. And if you bypass this process, I'm not sure what we do.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

This constitution is full of mines that are going to explode. The articles stipulated in this constitution will have grave consequences if they are submitted to a referendum. This constitution will lead to a weak Iraq that is unable to defend itself.

The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.