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«The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it»
Author: Felix Frankfurter
(Jurist)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
constitutionality, touchstone, touchstones
«The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.»
Author: Harry A. Blackmun
| About:
Constitution,
Relationships
| Keywords:
intimacy, intimate, privacy, right of privacy
«The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity»
Author: Henry Clay
(Statesman)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
Constitution of the, Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, existed, posterity, undefined, United States Constitution, unlimited
«The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Change,
Constitution,
Enemies,
Freedom,
Friends,
Liberty,
Revolution,
Speech,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
deadliest, framer, Framers, free speech
«The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.»
Author: Samuel Adams
(Politician)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
citizens, constitution, Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, construe, construed, peaceable, People of, prevent, the United States, United States, United States Constitution
«To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
accorded, American Constitution
«The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
executive, Executive power, legislative, Legislative power, nominate, nominated, nominating
«The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
American Constitution, American government, armed, constitution, every other, governments, People of, preserves
«The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.»
«The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Government,
Rules
| Keywords:
compilation, Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, elastic, government of the United, government of the United States, marvelously, proven, Rules of, United States Constitution, United States government
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