The illegal thing we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Constitution Quotes
The Puritan covenant would develop into a pillar of the American regime. For one thing, once the covenant idea takes hold, even a king can be accused of violating it. More important, covenants were forerunners of constitutions. As Kenneth Wald points out, the American Constitution not only reflects the covenant tradition but echoes its biblical […]
Well, do bear in mind that there’s a “reason” why (U.S. generals’) oath is to uphold the Constitution, not to obey the government. The folks who set that up envisioned that the two might someday end up in conflict, and wanted to make a clear statement about where the Army’s loyalties should lie.
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
The interpretation of constitutional principles must not be too literal. We must remember that the machinery of government would not work if it were not allowed a little play in its joints.
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen – on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy marts of trade, and everywhere – should share with him.
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has processes from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
