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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. (Queen Elizabeth II )
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. (Queen Elizabeth II )
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. (Queen Elizabeth II )
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. (Queen Elizabeth II )
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. (Queen Elizabeth II )
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. (Queen Elizabeth II )
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. (Queen Elizabeth II )
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. (Queen Elizabeth II )
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. (Queen Elizabeth II )
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. (Queen Elizabeth II )
There is a higher law than the Constitution. (Queen Elizabeth II )
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. (Queen Elizabeth II )
I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile. (Queen Elizabeth II )
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it. (Queen Elizabeth II )
Our object in framing the Constitution is rally two-fold: (1) To lay down the form of political democracy, and (2) To lay down that our ideal is economic democracy and also to prescribe that every Government whatever is in power shall strive to bring about economic democracy. The directive principles have a great value, for they lay down that our ideal is economic democracy. (Queen Elizabeth II )
“I don't have a litmus test, but I do expect that there's a core of constitutional values that are going to be upheld in these next series of appointments, and I suspect that I will have something to say about who's going to shape the legal landscape for the next 40, 50 years.” (Queen Elizabeth II )
The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. (Queen Elizabeth II )
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