“Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.” DoneCharacterHouseWhiteWrittenArmsTenConstitutionChiefsWhite HouseCommandmentsMottoTen CommandmentsPharaohsMinions Author:Michelle Malkin
“When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.” WayTechnologyWrittenCenturyConstitutionEvolveFoundersNew Technology Author:Al Franken
“The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.” NeedsTryingCountryStatesGodFactsTogetherSpiritualityCoursesUnitedEffortUnited StatesDemocracyWrittenStreetsDependsOrganizationConstitutionMereDevotionTonightJudgedSuggestionsInterfaithFreedom Of Religion Author:Walter Cronkite
“Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?” SportsWrittenWindConstitutionFundamentalsEndureDoctrineAll TimeShifting Author:Felix Frankfurter
“In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.” IfsGivingRealPoliticalPassionLanguageForceTermLinesWrittenFashionConstitutionRelyDocumentsReignPolitical SystemsBindingCompactGeneralitiesBetween The Lines Author:Alex Kozinski
“Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He stresses the organic development of the British constitution, prefers evolution to revolution, and thinks stability is better than strife.” ThinkingWrittenRevolutionDevelopmentEvolutionShadowAccountsConstitutionStressBritishStabilityStrifeMonarchyBritish HistoryBritish Constitution Author:David Cannadine
“The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.” PeopleMenEconomyWrittenUnderstoodConstitutionIntelligentEducatedModestPhiladelphiaIntelligent ManHighly Intelligent Author:John Jay Hooker
“The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.” IfsNeedsWritingPhilosophyScienceWrittenMagicPleaseResearchExpectationsUniversalConstitutionInvisibleManifestationAnticipationMetaphysicalPresumptionLatentMediationCausation Book:Darwinism: Being an Examination of Mr. St. George Mivart's 'Genesis of Species' Source: Darwinism: Being an Examination of Mr. St. George Mivart's 'Genesis of Species'
“The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.” FactsFormImagineWrittenConstitutionSlaveryClassism Author:Beau Willimon
“That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on which the whole American fabric has been erected.... The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supreme ... they are designed to be permanent.... The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written.” PeopleMayHas BeensWholeGovernmentOpinionPrinciplesWrittenLimitsAuthorityBasesConstitutionOriginalsFundamentalsForgottenSupremeDefinedPermanentFabricMistakenLegislature Author:John Marshall
“The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.” PeopleFirstsGovernmentMightWantedIndividualLibertyRightsWrittenFieldsTenConstitutionBillsBranchesTouchedExecutivesAmendmentsInterfereFederal GovernmentAdoptedJudicialBill Of RightsCurbIndividual Liberty Author:Hugo Black
“The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.” StatesTogetherPeaceWrittenConstitutionIndependentUnionsCompromiseOffspringBindingConcessionsCompact Author:James K. Polk
“A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.” IfsMeanSaidFatherWrittenJudgingConstitutionActivistFoundingJudicial Book:Humor of a Country Lawyer Source: Humor of a Country Lawyer
“The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.” PeopleHomeTogetherGuySecretWrittenConstitutionBunchChickensContractsGet TogetherSecret Knowledge Author:David Mamet
“A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.” DoeWrittenConstitutionOfficialsParameters Author:Kevin Gutzman
“The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance.” PeopleFirstsChildrenGovernmentSchoolReligiousWrittenPrayingBalanceProtectConstitutionOur ChildrenGenuineTyrannyNonsenseAmendmentsIntoleranceFirst AmendmentReligious FreedomPendulumsRedressGovernment Tyranny Author:Ronald Reagan
“We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.” BookStatesWrittenGunConstitutionTexasGreatest Book Author:George W. Bush
“The Constitution of this government was written by men who accepted Jesus Christ as the Savior of mankind. Let men and women in these United States then continue to keep their eyes centered upon Him who ever shines as a Light to all the world.” MenWorldStatesLightGovernmentEyeJesusChristUnitedUnited StatesWrittenMankindMen And WomenJesus ChristLet MeConstitutionShiningAcceptedSavior Author:David O. McKay
“If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.” IfsCountryStatesBigsGovernmentWould BeSchoolPoorRightsWrittenJudgingTaxesGunConstitutionPropertyTrackAidsStuckIncomeBudgetsCorporationsWelfareAgencyArrogantTroopsReservesGun ControlIncome TaxPrivate PropertyMembershipFederal ReserveForeign CountriesFrugalMeddlingForeign AidNaftaStates RightsAmerican TroopsBig CorporationsFederal Judges Author:Ron Paul