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“Without the competing tugs of aristocracy and democracy, kingship would easily slide into monarchial tyranny; so too, if left unchecked, aristocracy would decay into oligarchy; and democracy into mob rule.”

American Government Checks And Balances 1987 Constitutionalism

Book:Of Sovereignty and Federalism

Source: Of Sovereignty and Federalism

“The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the revolution of 1688 is this, that it was our last revolution. Several generations have now passed away since any wise and patriotic Englishman has meditated resistance to the established government. In all honest and reflecting minds there is a conviction, daily strengthened by experience, that the means of effecting every improvement which the constitution requires may be found within the constitution itself.”

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Author:Thomas Babington Macaulay

“The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.”

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Author:Nancy Pearcey

“The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.”

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Book:With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

Source: With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

“There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without stability and order.”

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Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

“If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start reinstituting all of these values, the morality in the culture, in our society; the respect for rule of law. And then you look at what we're up against, an entire Democrat Party.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.”

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Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.”

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Author:David Remnick

“One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order to truly understand the American founding.”

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Author:Daniel L Dreisbach

“[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable to all peoples everywhere; they were his contribution to what he called "the divine science of politics."”

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Author:Gordon S. Wood

“France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.”

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Author:Fareed Zakaria