Proposed Constitution

Famous quotes containing the words proposed constitution, proposed and/or constitution:

“The proposed Constitution ... is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“It is true that men themselves made this world of nations ... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.”
—Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)

“Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)