#constitution

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one. ↗

— Romano Prodi

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What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution. ↗

— Richard Pryor

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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth. ↗

— Will Rogers

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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. ↗

— Will Rogers

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The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

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Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution. ↗

— Robert Casey

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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. ↗

— Salmon Portland Chase

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When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. ↗

— George Sutherland

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