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«Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
| Keywords:
calculate, consist, constitutions, necessarily, permanent, provisions
«Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
constitution, constitutions, firearm, firearms, importance, liberty, peoples, teeth
«The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Politics,
Right
| Keywords:
alter, basis, constitutions, political, political system, political systems, system
«Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
constitution, constitutions, interfere, interfered, interfering, liberties, maintained, On Liberty, safeguard, safeguarded, Safeguarding, safeguards
«I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
constitution, constitutions, look upon, morning, refreshed, refreshes, refreshing, rise, sleep
«A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes»
«The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
American Constitution, American language, constitutions, construct, constructs, define, grammar, grammars, parts of speech, part of speech, practically, syntax, The American
«No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
Against the man, authority, civil, civil authority, civil right, conscience, constitution, constitutions, dearer, enterprises, ought, protects, provision, rights
«I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
anchor, anchored, anchors, consider, constitution, constitutions, held, imagined, juries, jury, principles, trial
«America's game: has the snap, go, fling, of the American atmosphere - belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
American Constitution, constitutions, historic, significantly
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