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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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

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