#constitution

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president. ↗

— Karen Hughes

#army #because #believed #born #constitution

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution. ↗

— James Meredith

#answer #constitution #deal #dealt #fathers

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#united-states #unity

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. ↗

— Bill Maher

#bill-of-rights #christianity #constitution #politics #religion

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#change #constitution #imperfections #laws #progress

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it. ↗

— Jacob F. Roecker

#inspirational #political #inspirational

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them to frame the Constitution of the United States ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

#constitution #united-states #inspirational

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. ↗

— Harold Russell

#any #authority #away #civil #constitutional

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel? ↗

— Joe Biden

#father #feel #just #me #says

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself. ↗

— Robert Bork

#almost #anywhere #constitution #court #i