John C. Calhoun Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws . . .

  John C. Calhoun

  America, Law, Majority

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

• How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.

  John C. Calhoun

  Strong, Mean, Government

• The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

  John C. Calhoun

  Government, Law, Constitution

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1855). “REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS”, p.63

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