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Constitution Quotes - Page 14

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

"Women’s Equality Yet to Be Fully Realized" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

Benjamin N. Cardozo (2009). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.

Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1929). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.

William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office