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Constitution Of The United States Quotes
Historical and legal reflections on the U.S. Constitution.
This page collects quotes discussing the Constitution of the United States, from its role in committee oversight to historical analysis of who drafted it and what influenced its structure. The quotes reflect a range of scholarly and political perspectives, presented here without endorsing any single viewpoint. For related history, see our America quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, my fellow citizens, despite what the original Constitution of the United States says about the qualifications for statehood and the guarantee of representation in Congress, by every measure that truly matters in America (bigness, crowdedness, awesomeness, Texasness), Nebraska doesn't deserve its star on the American flag.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
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- Nov 07, 2020