Constitutionalism Quotes

• The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

  George Will

  Essence, Liberty, Democracy

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without stability and order.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Government, Self, Order

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Clinton Rossiter (1961). “The federalist papers”, Signet

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• If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start reinstituting all of these values, the morality in the culture, in our society; the respect for rule of law. And then you look at what we're up against, an entire Democrat Party.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Law, Culture

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

  David Remnick

  Alarms, Trump, Seeming

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Home, America, Democracy

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• Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  America, Democracy, Revolution

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• [John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable to all peoples everywhere; they were his contribution to what he called "the divine science of politics."

  Gordon S. Wood

  Ideas, Political, Divine

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Party, Common Sense, Political

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• One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order to truly understand the American founding.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Order, Intellectual, Enlightenment

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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