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• The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

  George William Norris

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• Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.

  George Washington

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• The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

  George Washington

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• The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

  Felix Frankfurter

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• If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

  George Sutherland

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• That’s the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

  Steve King

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• The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

  Stephen E. Ambrose

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• There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren’t loads of countries where they’re followed.

  Stephen Breyer

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• I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

  Craig Anthony Washington

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• 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

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• Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the ‘supreme law of the land,’ in most instances they’re not even law.

  Sonia Sotomayor

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• While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

  Solomon Ortiz

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• No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

  Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount

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• Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

  George Clymer

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• And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

  Sharron Angle

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• It doesn’t say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

  Sean Hannity

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• The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

  Sarah Vaughan

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• The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

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• In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

  Sam Houston

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• In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

  Sam Houston

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