#constitution

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#death #i #look #morning #necessary

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

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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

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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

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