In questions of power, let no more be said of confidence in Man, but bind him down with the chains of the Constitution.
Constitution Quotes
Constitutions and laws will prevail over much, and allegiance to them is a high duty, but when they come into conflict with a deep-rooted moral sentiment, and with the principles of liberty and humanity, they must be modified, or else they will be broken to pieces.
By the end of the 20th century, majority opinion had become the determining factor in all that government does. The rule of law was cast aside, leaving the Constitution a shell of what it once was.
Americans don’t need black-robed justices divining the meaning of the Constitution. The Constitution was written by our founding fathers as a document that could be understood by ordinary citizens without law degrees from Harvard or Yale à or even in spite of such credentials. We have allowed ourselves to be hoodwinked into believing that we […]
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by… any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
All the foundations before mentioned, of the federal government, are by the proposed system to be established, in the most clear, strong, positive, unequivocal expressions, of which our language is capable. Magna charta, or any other law, never contained clauses more decisive and emphatic. While the people of these states have sense, they will understand […]
There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
If the Constitution is to be construed to mean what the majority at any given period in history wish the Constitution to mean, why a written Constitution?
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.
