Georgia Quotes

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

The federal constitution is perhaps the greatest of human experiments.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

The Constitution lies at the core of our civil religion.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

The Constitution is a list of things the government may not do.

Free elections are only one part of democracy. Constraint on the power of government and the rule of law and the institutions of democracy are just as important.

The whole point of the Constitution is to limit at some point and in some way popular will.

The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace.

Addressing ‘grievances’ is a founding principle of American Democracy.

In the year 2010, Kenya adopted a new constitution. With that constitution, we further secured the human rights and civil liberties of our citizens and entrenched constitutional governance and justice.

We are a country based on the rule of law.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

The path we have chosen is constitutional.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.