James K. Polk Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

  James K. Polk

  Rights, Majority, Minorities

  Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.

• Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

  James K. Polk

  Thank God, Church, Connections

  James K. Polk (2015). “The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency”, p.353, BIG BYTE BOOKS

• Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I recognized no distinction of creeds in my appointments office.

  James K. Polk

  Office, Presidential, Thank God

• Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

  James K. Polk

  Minorities, Shields, Constitution

  Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.

• Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other.

  James K. Polk

  Teaching, Exercise, Government

• The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

  James K. Polk

  Peace, Independent, Together

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