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Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
A Constitution should be short and obscure. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A Constitution should be short and obscure. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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There is a higher law than the Constitution. – William Seward

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

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The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I dont mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power… stuff thats very close to us. – Christopher Alexander

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I never appreciated positive heroes in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more productive literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. – Jose Saramago

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