#constitution

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

— George Washington

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

— Stephen Ambrose

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Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

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We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

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I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

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Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution. ↗

— Robert Casey

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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. ↗

— Salmon Portland Chase

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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

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