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Constitution Quotes
On rights, duty, and what founding law leaves unsaid.
These quotes touch on what the Constitution does and doesn't explicitly protect, from the absence of any enumerated right to private conversation to its rejection of any tiered, unequal citizenship. See Constitutional Rights quotes for more on that theme.
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Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
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A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
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If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.
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The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
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But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
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But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.
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But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
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I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
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