Quotessence
Home / Books / Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution

Book by Joseph Story · 7 quotes · States, Government, Constitution

Filter quotes by topic

AllStatesGovernmentConstitutionLibertyWellsUnitedUnited StatesCitizensDutyFederalismFounding Fathers GunFounding Fathers Second AmendmentHumansMenProprietyResponsibilitySolemn2 AmendmentAmending The ConstitutionAmendment 1

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution Quotes

“A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.”

StatesGovernmentForeverConfusionAnarchy
Book:Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
Create image

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

PeopleStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesConstitutionFederal GovernmentReservedFreedom LibertyProperty RightsLimited GovernmentBill Of RightsFederal ReserveJudiciaryAmerican GovernmentLimiting GovernmentConstitution Of The United StatesFounding Fathers GunConstitutional RightsSeparation Of PowersUs ConstitutionFounding Fathers Second AmendmentFederalismSecessionGeneral WelfareConstitutional GovernmentStates RightsTyranny Founding FathersAmending The ConstitutionPower GovernmentPolice PowerNullification
Book:Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
Create image

“It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape. The future experience of Christendom, and chiefly of the American states, must settle this problem, as yet new in the history of the world, abundant, as it has been, in experiments in the theory of government.”

WorldHumansHas BeensStatesProblemGovernmentReligiousLibertySupportPolicyDutyTheoryShapesWorshipRemainsAffairExperimentsPermanentSettlingWorld HistoryFounding Fathers ReligiousFree GovernmentChristendom
Book:Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
Create image

“The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the feelings, the affections, the municipal institutions, and the internal arrangements of the whole population. They possess, too, the immediate administration of justice in all cases, civil and criminal, which concern the property, personal rights, and peaceful pursuits of their own citizens.”

StatesWholeFeelingsGovernmentInterestJusticeCasesRightsCitizensMassConcernInstitutionsPropertyPopulationAffectionCriminalsPursuitLocalsPeacefulAdministrationInternalsImmenseArrangementsState GovernmentFederalismPersonal RightsAdministration Of Justice
Book:Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
Create image

“Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.”

MenWellsGovernmentPassionEffectsJudgmentMethodConclusionResolveMatureMultitudesDeliberate
Book:Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
Create image

“How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.”

MayChildrenGovernmentCommonLibertyPrinciplesPracticeDeservePraiseInstitutionsDustCherishReverencePerpetualDevotedFormationFreshness
Book:Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
Create image

“It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.”

GovernmentSpiritualConsciousnessSubjectsDangerPrideAmbitionRacistBigotryIntoleranceSolemnSectsAdvisableSpiritual Pride
Book:Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution
Create image