#constitution

A Constitution should be short and obscure. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#obscure #short #should

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#commandments #constitution #display #doing #flawed

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#constitution #country #destiny #every #flag

One country, one constitution, one destiny. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#country #destiny

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#chinese #citizens #constitution #dangerous #express

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#between #branches #clauses #constitution #difference

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#change #constitution #i #problem #states

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. ↗

— William Hague

#again #cabinet #constitutional #convention #cynical

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#clues #constitutional #development #experience #labour

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#advanced #constitution #decent #i #quite