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Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years. -- Ron Kind
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth. -- Paul Johnson
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. -- Elihu Root
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean. -- Rand Paul
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. -- Elihu Root
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. -- David Mamet
Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps. -- Arnold Kling
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. -- Anthony Kennedy
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. -- Aristotle
Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional. -- Clinton Rossiter
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. -- Thurgood Marshall
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. -- Alexander Hamilton
The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation. -- Maximilien Robespierre
The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum. -- Geoff Hoon
Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government. -- Edwin Meese
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. -- Edward Snowden
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. -- Zoe Lofgren
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end. -- Richard Allen Epstein
If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. -- Siraj Wahhaj
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work. -- Tony Kushner
If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us. -- John Conyers
I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. -- Ted Cruz
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government. -- Joseph Sobran
Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance. -- Andrew Jackson
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities. -- John C. Calhoun
... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark. -- James Madison
Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders. -- Joel Miller
The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government. -- John Adams
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. -- Roger Brooke Taney
No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty. -- Ron Paul
If we add state capitalism to the Bush administration's success in eroding both the US Constitution and the power of Congress, we may be witnessing the final death of accountable constitutional government. -- Paul Craig Roberts
Christians, above all people, should desire that their elected representatives submit to the Constitution, because it is constitutional government that has done more to protect Christian liberty than any governing document ever devised by man. -- Chuck Baldwin

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