Framers Quotes

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The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.

Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.

Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it.

The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered it an individual right.

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion.