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[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it's like they're in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.

Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution.

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan’s constitution. He clearly can’t read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who are urging the president to brush away the constitution, those I would like to remind of a Russian proverb: "Don't spit into the well, it'll come in handy once you're thirsty.

Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

Ted Cruz will point Americans back to the principles established by our Constitution enabling you to live free.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism; it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

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

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

The aim of the Constitutional Treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable ... The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this Treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

The ANC is more important than the Constitution.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.