In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn’t slam him. I said, ‘Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn’t a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.

The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning, is believed to be, that it was not suspected that any such charge would ever take place; and it appears that no such charge did take place, during the early period of the Constitution, when the meaning of its authors could be best ascertained, nor until many of the contemporary lights had in the lapse of time been extinguished. How often does it happen, that a notoriety of intention diminishes the caution against its being misunderstood or doubted!

Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them, and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does this not involve the principle of a national establishment … ?

I entirely concur in the propriety of restoring to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is a legitimate constitution. And, if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for consistent and stable government.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority’s ability to harm a minority.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right

I don’t. Our Founders wrote the Constitution with every crisis they could imagine in mind. I have confidence in that system. It’s going to work.

am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what not just the government should refuse, or rest on inference.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters

The nation’s first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and that you are going to royally h*ck up this beef wellington what don’t you understand about letting it rest.

The right to keep and bear arms is a God-given right protected by the Constitution.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

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

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.