#constitution

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

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When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body. ↗

— Bill Lee

#cerebral #church #constitution #enter #into

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#because #constitution #free #hated #idea

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. ↗

— Maya Lin

#constitutions #draft #fairly #father #first

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#belongs #constitutional #constitutional right #country #exercise

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. ↗

— Eric Liu

#calls #constitution #critical #critical role #demand

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities. ↗

— Gary Locke

#balanced #budgets #constitution #either #establishing

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#better #constitution #despot #good #infinitely

I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#constitutional #conversation #couch #distracted #easily

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. ↗

— James Madison

#constitution #distorted #end #form #government