Constitutionalism Quotes:

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

- David Remnick

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Alarms, Trump, Constitutionalism

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

- George Will

source: George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

topic: Essence, Liberty, Democracy, Fervent, Constitutionalism

There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without stability and order.

- Clinton Rossiter

source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Clinton Rossiter (1961). “The federalist papers”, Signet

topic: Government, Self, Order, Constitutionalism, Self-government

If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start reinstituting all of these values, the morality in the culture, in our society; the respect for rule of law. And then you look at what we're up against, an entire Democrat Party.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Party, Law, Culture, Constitutionalism

France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.

- Fareed Zakaria

topic: Home, America, Democracy, Constitutionalism

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

- Samuel P. Huntington

topic: America, Democracy, Revolution, Liberal Democracy, Constitutionalism

[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable to all peoples everywhere; they were his contribution to what he called "the divine science of politics."

- Gordon S. Wood

source: Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

topic: Ideas, Political, Divine, Montesquieu, Political Theory

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

- Nancy Pearcey

topic: Party, Common Sense, Political, Constitutionalism

One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order to truly understand the American founding.

- Daniel L Dreisbach

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Order, Intellectual, Enlightenment, Constitutionalism, Republicanism