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

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

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

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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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