Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.
Jon StewartTag: america failure constitution confederation
Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British government, built on debt, corruption, and influence. Hamilton's goal, Jefferson charged, was to ally the rich and well born with the government at the people's expense, creating a corrupt aristocracy leagued with the government against the people and destroying the virtue that was the basis of republican government. Only a republic could preserve liberty, Jefferson insisted, and only virtue among the people could preserve a republic.
R.B. BernsteinTag: history government jefferson constitution hamilton
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
Bill MaherTag: politics christianity religion bible constitution bill-of-rights
When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.
Susan QuinnTag: democracy constitution supreme-court flexibility roosevelt
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.
David BrinTag: law constitution
It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances...to advantage.... If I have not succeeded in making the reader feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American
Naomi WolfTag: liberty morality usa values americans constitution
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A.J. LieblingTag: writing censorship speech opinion constitution freedom-of-expression press
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
Bill MoyersTag: wisdom inspirational democracy romance constitution defense
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: liberty patriotism rights constitution patriot unalienable-rights
The dead should not rule the living.
Thomas JeffersonTag: inspirational politics constitution
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