If the thing has been practiced for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it.
Constitution Quotes
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
The interpretation of constitutional principles must not be too literal. We must remember that the machinery of government would not work if it were not allowed a little play in its joints.
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen – on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy marts of trade, and everywhere – should share with him.
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has processes from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all. (Proposed to replace Flag pledge)
By the efforts of these infidels, the name of God was left out of the Constitution of the United States. They knew that if an infinite being was put in, no room would be left for the people. They knew that if any church was made the mistress of the state, that mistress, like all […]
