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A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

~Charles Edison

Topics: Altered Arrangement Awkward Confusing Constitution Courts Less More New Produce Responsible Should Simple System Would

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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.

~Charles Evans Hughes

Topics: Constitution Judges Judiciary Liberty Our Property Safeguard Say

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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

~Charles Hodge

Topics: Actively Authority Canon Clergy Constitution Cooperate Forming Making Matters Merely Passively People Procedure Rules Same Too

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You can be a Christian. You can be Jew. You can be a Muslim. You can be atheist. This is your own choice. But the law, the constitution, the law of the people is above God's law. So when somebody arrives in Europe, people need to accept those rules.

~Charles Michel

Topics: Above Accept Atheist Choice Christian Constitution Europe God Jew Law Muslim Need Own People Rules Somebody Those You Your

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It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct.

~Charles T. Canady

Topics: Assert Constitution Does Duty English English Language Entrusted Guilty Him Language Not Guilty Official President Violated Violence Who

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Impeachment must not be a raw exercise of political power in which the House impeaches whoever it wishes for any reason it deems sufficient. Indeed, it is the solemn duty of all of the members of the House in any impeachment case to exercise their judgment faithfully within the confines established by our Constitution.

~Charles T. Canady

Topics: Any Case Confines Constitution Duty Established Exercise Faithfully House Impeachment Indeed Judgment Members Must Our Political Political Power Power Raw Reason Solemn Sufficient Which Whoever Wishes Within

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I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

~Charles T. Canady

Topics: Adopted Constitution Directly Forget Never Never Forget People Speak Through Who Will

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A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

~Charles Tupper

Topics: Any Away Between Broad Constitution Country Distinction Drawn Enjoyed Gather May Privilege Privileges Right Rights Taken Were

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Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: About Barack Barack Obama Because Constitution Contemplative Context Crazy Driving Drones Every Except Exercising Good Good Thing Gut Launching Least Man Obama Official Powers President Resisting Thing War Washington Which A Good Thing

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I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.

~Charlie Sheen

Topics: Blood Brain Constitution Different Got Heart Man Tiger

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