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

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.