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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documen

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. – George Bernard Shaw

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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. – Walter Lippmann

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The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. – Felix Frankfurter

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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. – Henry Kissinger

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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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