Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is.
We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.
Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.
I take my marching orders from the Constitution.
Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. . . The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.
We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.
The United States Constitution grants education decision authority to the states and localities not to the president of the United States.
Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?
We need to reform the constitution in Chile. The current one was written and passed in 1980 during the dictatorship. Some changes were made after the return of democracy, but its origins remain illegitimate. Instead of continuing to make fixes here and there, we need to undertake fundamental changes to our constitution to make it reflect the reality of our democratic society.
There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.
Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
The United States Constitution builds politics right into the process of selecting federal judges. This third branch, the judiciary, is designed to have a longer view. To have individuals who are more insulated from politics. They're not elected directly. They're appointed for life. So, politics enters, but it's also, controlled. And if you bypass this process, I'm not sure what we do.