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Quotes about constitutions
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A Constitution should be short and obscure. (Obama Barack)
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787 It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut. (Obama Barack)
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. (Obama Barack)
The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. (Obama Barack)
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. (Obama Barack)
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. (Obama Barack)
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. (Obama Barack)
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. (Obama Barack)
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. (Obama Barack)
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. (Obama Barack)
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. (Obama Barack)
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. (Obama Barack)
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. (Obama Barack)
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. (Obama Barack)
There is a higher law than the Constitution. (Obama Barack)
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. (Obama Barack)
I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile. (Obama Barack)
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it. (Obama Barack)
Our object in framing the Constitution is rally two-fold: (1) To lay down the form of political democracy, and (2) To lay down that our ideal is economic democracy and also to prescribe that every Government whatever is in power shall strive to bring about economic democracy. The directive principles have a great value, for they lay down that our ideal is economic democracy. (Obama Barack)
“I don't have a litmus test, but I do expect that there's a core of constitutional values that are going to be upheld in these next series of appointments, and I suspect that I will have something to say about who's going to shape the legal landscape for the next 40, 50 years.” (Obama Barack)
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