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Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Aid Bondage Could Declaration Eternal Framers Graves Held Include Independence Making Now Our Recognize Rise Sacred Thought Till Torn Universal

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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

~Billy Graham

Topics: Constitution Framers Freedom Freedom From Freedom Of Religion Meant Our Religion Were

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The Constitution makes very clear what the obligation of the United States Senate is and what the obligation of the president of the United States is. To allow a Supreme Court position to remain vacant for well over a year cuts against what I think the intentions of the framers are and what the traditions of the Senate and the executive are.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Against Allow Clear Constitution Court Cuts Executive Framers Intentions Makes Obligation Over Position President Remain Senate States Supreme Supreme Court Think Traditions United United States United States Senate Vacant Very Well Year I Think

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The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Afraid Against Also Balances Checks Checks And Balances Dictator Excess Framers George Government Guard Hated Inflamed King Many Might Mob Our Passion Public Put System Tyranny Were Whim Why

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Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court's decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state's borders.

~David Limbaugh

Topics: According Been Believe Borders Clause Commerce Congress Conservatives Constitution Court Decisions Expanding Framers Intent Interpreted Language Local Long Matters Meaning Meaning Of Most Original Plain Regulate Should State Troubled Who Within

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Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.

~Diane Wood

Topics: Any Bill Bill Of Rights Careless Chose Constitution Document Framers James Lecture Madison Named Neither Nor Oblivious Other Otherwise Rights Unaware Were Whom Words

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It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

~Diane Wood

Topics: Century Constitution Debate Dynamism End Evolution Focus Framers How Instead Interpret Long-Standing Matter Our Over Questions Say Should Substantive Time Unimaginable Unproductive Versus

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America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.

~Edwin Meese

Topics: America Beacon Bill Bill Of Rights Constitution Extent First Founded Framers Liberty Made Our Particularly Preserve Protected Religious Right Rights Sought

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Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Constitutional Designed Framers Government Only People Righteous Survive Will

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