Edmund Morgan Quotes
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Many of the Founding Fathers had a deep suspicion of political parties or “factions” as Madison referred to them. However, after Washington’s two non partisan administrations, political parties became dominant in American politics when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson presented two very different views of government and the nation was divided.
When asked for his position on abortion, candidate Bush answered:. Nine years later, President Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling on flag desecration.
Referring to the Brown v. Board of Education, the Topeka, KS, Supreme Court school desegregation decision:
Edmund Sears Morgan was an American historian, an eminent authority on early American history. He was Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. He specialized in American colonial history, with some attention to English history. Thomas S. Kidd says he was noted for his incisive writing style, "simply one of the best academic prose stylists America has ever produced." He covered many topics, including Puritanism, political ideas, the American Revolution, slavery, historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as Benjamin Franklin.
