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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
James Madison
Hope
Constitution
Happy
World
Liberty
Example
States
Miracle
Throughout
Wonder
Union
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.
Jefferson Davis
Property
Constitution
Together
Obligation
Before
Unknown
States
Recognition
Would
Had
Without
Been
Existed
Confederation
Any
Regard
Formation
Which
Themselves
Derived
Union
United
Species
Enjoyed
Slavery
I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty.
Justin Amash
Government
Freedom
Constitution
Liberty
Limited Government
Follow
Economic
Economic Freedom
Individual
Individual Liberty
Votes
Principles
Limited
Base
Set
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
Leonard Cohen
Dreams
Constitution
People
Nation
Every
Perceived
Given
Beyond
Covenant
Condition
Itself
Sovereign
Land
Sweetest
Guarantee
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall
Today
Freedom
Constitution
Speak
Decency
Sense
Realistic
Other
Several
Those
Corrective
Blacks
Only
Document
Fairness
Because
Cherish
Amendment
These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
Valerie Plame
Government
You
Constitution
Words
Abuse Of Power
Power
About
Written
Since
Abuse
How
Issues
Been
Account
Hold
Your
Deeds
Grappling
I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead.
Antonin Scalia
Truth
Constitution
Truth Is
Better
Living
Changing
Say
Longer
Dead
Document
Said
Gotten
Enduring
Meant
Used
I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.
Charlie Sheen
Man
Constitution
Heart
Tiger
Got
Brain
Blood
Different
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.
George Haven Putnam
Government
You
Constitution
Will
Unless
Please
Stated
Destroy
Purpose
Points
Allowed
Between
Plainly
Then
Us
Enforce
Your
Dispute
I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.
Gil Scott-Heron
Constitution
Peace
People
Minority
Everybody
Find
Inside
About
Outside
Had
Protesting
Always
Questions
Trying
Really
Meant
Meant To Be
Who
Radicals
Apply
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
Jefferson Davis
Property
Constitution
States
Recognized
Compromises
Throughout
Southern
Southern States
Should
United
United States
Slave
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
Leon Jaworski
Constitution
Watergate
Law
Before
Our
Above
Absolutely
No-One
Generations
Known
Learned
Reaffirm
Years
Again
Us
Works
Interpreted
Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.
Lysander Spooner
Constitution
People
Minority
Our
Simply
Majority
Does
Been
Established
Much
Profess
By The People
The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
God
Religion
Constitution
Science
Natural
Law
Will
Same Thing
Field
Universe
Say
Total
Same
Thing
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
Andrew Jackson
Constitution
Laws
Supreme
Union
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.
Dave Brubeck
Freedom
Democracy
You
Constitution
People
Discipline
Jazz
Out
Idea
Within
Disciplined
Understand
How
Get
Just
Want
Anything
Really
Many
Play
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
James Madison
Alone
Constitution
Nation
Sense
Entirely
Propriety
Accepted
Concur
Legitimate
Which
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi
Constitution
Fool
Every
Damn
Gives
Make
Himself
American
Inalienable
Inalienable Right
Right
Every American
No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution - about what the Constitution allows and doesn't allow, what the law allows and doesn't allow.
Mitch McConnell
Constitution
Law
Matter
President
Once
Say
About
Someone
Constrained
Allow
Campaign
Candidate
May
Sworn
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
Molly Ivins
History
Constitution
Struggle
Long
Country
Everyone
Our
Liberties
Possible
Long Struggle
Read
America
Established
The History Of
Extend
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Constitution
Obscure
Short
Should
I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.
Richard Schiff
Change
Constitution
Hate
People
Welfare
First
Become
Nation
Resources
Says
Paragraph
General
General Welfare
Prospers
Make
Without
Preamble
Very
America
Nations
Again
Us
Actually
Imagine
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.
Roxane Gay
Government
Religion
Constitution
Church
Free
First
Practice
Separation
Live
State
Our
Guided
Church And State
Religious
Laws
Never
Clear
First Amendment
Also
Without
Makes
Amendment
Interference
Zeal
I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.
Sally Yates
Constitution
Legal
Obligation
Law
Advice
Believe
President
Independent
Follow
Give
General
Attorney
Attorney General
Deputy
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.
Sharron Angle
You
Constitution
Law
Tyranny
Military
Fathers
Our
Citizenry
Law Enforcement
Someone
Bear
Fact
Feel
Arms
Read
Amendment
Intended
Stop
In Fact
Us
Enforcement
Keep
Founding
Founding Fathers
Right
Second
Second Amendment
I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.
Saddam Hussein
Constitution
Rights
President
Say
Immunity
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Prosecution
Said
According
Former
Including
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