Our Constitution, though not perfect, is doubtless the best that ever was formed.

With respect to their health in these voyages, the mortality, where the African constitution was the strongest, or on the windward coast, was only about five in a hundred.

These constitutions thus may be either congenital or acquired.

It is regulated by the constitution and laws of a State I grant, but it needs no argument, it appears to me, to show that a constitution and laws adopted and enacted by a fragment of the whole body of the people, but binding alike on all, is a usurpation of the powers of government.

The Constitution itself is its own best expounder of the meaning of words employed by its framers.

The Constitution is a series of contracts made by each individual with every other of the fourteen millions.

If the Constitution is not what history, unbroken practice, and the courts prove that our fathers intended to make it, and what too, their descendants, this nation say they did make it, and agree to uphold,who shall decide what the Constitution is?

The constitution was not an entirely new invention.

A constitution, while primarily for the distribution of governmental powers, is, in its last analysis, a formal expression of adherence to that which in modern times has been called the higher law, and which in ancient times was called natural law.

If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act, contrary to the constitution, is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature, inimitable.

The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace.

His constitution, shattered by intemperance and continued dissipation, was not proof against the fever that ensued; delirium never left him.

In point of fact, the Constitution was simply the minutes of an agreement among certain gentlemen, to define the limits within which they would accept trust- funds, and the objects for which they should expend them.

The constitution, as it had existed for the last hundred and forty years, had been not only a Protestant but a Church of England constitution.

The Liberals appealed to Belgium; it had, at least, stood the storm of the last year, but so had Russia, and, after all, the Belgian Constitution was only eighteen years old, "an admirable age for ladies but not for constitutions."

Further, the constitution of our consciousness is the ever present and lasting element in all we do or suffer; our individuality is persistently at work, more or less, at every moment of our life: all other influences are temporal, incidental, fleeting, and subject to every kind of chance and change.

The constitution must alone be the firm ground on which the legislature stands; hence it must not be created for purposes of legislation.

The constitution and composition of the House of Lords is a question entirely independent of my subject.

This party think that the constitution of the United States is so thoroughly pro-slavery that nothing can be done without breaking it up.

I felt, however, that the constitution and procedure of international courts were subjects which did not affect the general theory of organization and concerning which my views might influence the President and be of aid to him in the formulation of the judicial feature of any plan adopted.

"The constitution of this country," he presently added, "is its glory; but in what a nice adjustment does its excellence consist!

'The constitution of the place is the result of the sense of the inhabitants that order must be preserved,' said the one, who had spoken to me first.

The Unwritten Constitution of the United States, is the title of a very recent book by C.G. Tiedeman.

The general constitution of the judiciary power, as delegated from the kingship, the creation of several classes of magistrates devoted to this great social function, and, especially, the strong organization and the permanence of the parliament of Paris, were far more important progressions in the development of civil order and society in France.

This does not argue that the Constitution is an obscure document, for it would be difficult to cite any political document in the annals of mankind that was so simple and lucid in expression.