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Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

~George Haven Putnam

Topics: Allowed Between Constitution Destroy Dispute Enforce Government Plainly Please Points Purpose Stated Then Unless Us Will You Your

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Guns are part of the Constitution, and no one is willing to have that tough conversation with Congress and the Senate and the president to say maybe that's got to change. People talk about it - but I mean actual change.

~George Stroumboulopoulos

Topics: About Actual Change Congress Constitution Conversation Got Guns Maybe Mean Part People President Say Senate Talk Tough Willing

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If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

~George Sutherland

Topics: Abandoned Comfort Constitution May Pinch Provisions Upheld Well

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It was an egregious violation of the American Constitution. We were innocent American citizens, and we were imprisoned simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. It shows us just how fragile our Constitution is.

~George Takei

Topics: American American Citizens Because Bombed Citizens Constitution Fragile Happened Harbor How Imprisoned Innocent Just Like Look Our Pearl Pearl Harbor People Shows Simply Us Violation Were Who

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It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is.

~George Takei

Topics: All Americans American Constitution How Important Know Our Vulnerable

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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

~George Washington

Topics: Abandon Constitution Guide Never Which Will

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The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

~George Washington

Topics: After Authorized Congress Constitution Declaring Expedition Importance Measure Offensive Power Shall Subject Therefore Undertaken Until War

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Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

~George Will

Topics: Accept American Because Constitute Constitution Democracy Judicial Judicial Review Know Law Majority Makes Must Nation No Law Popular Popularity Possibly Preferences Review Some Supervision Truly Trump Unconstitutional

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The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

~George William Norris

Topics: Affairs Constitution Emigration Entirely Every Every Nation Independent Internal Left Matters Nation Other Ought Similar Specifically State Supreme

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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

~Gerald R. Ford

Topics: Constitution Government Great Laws Men Our Republic Works

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