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Letter "C" » Constitution
«The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.»
Author: Arthur J. Goldberg
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
compelling, overwhelmingly, promptly, warrant, warranted, warrants
«The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them»
«The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements»
Author: John Marshall
(Founder)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
blot, blots, blotting, General Public, haven, havens, Movements, ordain, ordained, ordains, panacea, Public welfare, reform, reform movement, welfare
«The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Constitution,
Government,
People
| Keywords:
constitution, constitutions, dominate, dominated by, instrument, interests, lest, restrain, restraining, restrains, the government
«The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
backs, designed, neutral, not neutral
«The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
abandon, constitution, guide, The Guide
«The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right .»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
composing, Constitution of the, Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, respective, United States Constitution
«The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Constitution,
Equality,
Mankind
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, Britain, declaration, effecting, Great Britain, placed, practical, Practical effect, separation
«The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Constitution,
Country,
Justice,
Law and lawyers,
Weapons
| Keywords:
foundations, The Chief
«The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
American Constitution, American language, constitutions, construct, constructs, define, grammar, grammars, parts of speech, part of speech, practically, syntax, The American
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