There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.
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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.
The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.