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“Constitution is neither bone nor stone.”
“The text is written on parchment made from sheep, fleeced, their hides soaked in lime, stretched and dried.”
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“Only humans devise constitutions.”
“A government of laws and not of men Every ordered society is governed by a set of core rules, customs, and principles.”
“It begins, “I plant the Tree of Great Peace.” It was meant to grow, root and branch.”
“Amendment is also a constitution’s mechanism for the prevention of insurrection.”
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“Its lofty, momentous ideas came from the minds of men, long since dead, and from the books they read.”
“It is still in force: it is the law.”
“Once writing was invented, rulers of ancient human societies began recording laws, etching them into clay and stone in the hope that they would last, binding one generation to the next.”
“The revolutionary idea that the ruled rather than the rulers decide the rules emerged only haltingly.”
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“Constitution was intended to be amended.”
“Committing a constitution to writing offers stability…but it also presents a problem: how is a government established by a written constitution to be altered except by its destruction?”
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““The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records,” Alexander Hamilton advised seekers in 1775.”
“The eighteenth century was an age not only of revolution and empire but also of enlightenment animated by the idea of progress—political, scientific, economic, technological, and moral.”
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“The Constitution of the United States is made of things that are born, live, thrive, decay, and die: insects, animals, plants, ideas.”