Marine Le Pen Quotes

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories.

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power.

Gentlemen, you are trampling on the sovereignty of this great state.... You are destroying the Constitution of this great nation.... May God have mercy on your souls.

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

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 not a suicide pact.

… state authority should not be needlessly usurped by a centralized government. But I also believe that an obligation rests with the national government to see that the citizens of every state are treated equally.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons.

Unity was the real key to the success of the United States. The constitution of 1787 was in many respects the imposition of a central national government upon the quarrelsome states... In a country so constituted, the weaknesses of one state were compensated for by the strengths of another.

Our new constitution is founded principally on those of England and the United States of America, but avoiding the faults and errors of both, and adapted as much as possible to the local and particular circumstances of the country

The Constitution lies at the core of our civil religion.

I cannot recall ever seeing the words “state soverigenty” in the Federal Constituiton. I taught the subject for years, and studied the Constitutional Convention and I don’t ever remember seeing that term.

We can't have a referendum on every important question. This is a republic, not a democracy. This is Chicago, not California.

The Constitution of the United States [is] the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

This [the Constitution] is the authoritative language of the American people; and, if gentlemen please, of the American States.

Let me say right here that only unanimous consent of the states can dissolve this Union.

Where there is only a national representative government without local self-government, there is no liberty as we understand it