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A constitution is a system for government, often codified as a written document, that establishes the rules and principles of an autonomous political entity. In the case of countries, this term refers specifically to a national constitution defining the fundamental political principles, and establishing the structure, procedures, powers and duties, of a government. Most national constitutions also guarantee certain rights to the people. The term constitution can be applied to any overall law... full article at wikipedia

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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.	Benjamin Franklin
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.	Alexander Hamilton
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.	Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.	Gerald Ford
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.	Walter Lippmann
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.	Lyndon B. Johnson
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.	Henry Kissinger
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.	James Madison
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.	Franklin D. Roosevelt
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.	Joseph de Maistre
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