Noam Chomsky Quotes About Constitution

• The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Passivity Is, People

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

• Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Slave Owners, Giving

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

• Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Majority, Minorities

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

• For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Struggle, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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