by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“I first saw the Constitution of the United States in a foreign country…. I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adapted to the genius, character, situation, and the relations of this...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, George Washington, Government, President, Quotes
“This Constitution is really, in its formation, a government of the people…No government before introduced among mankind ever contained so many checks and such efficacious restraints to prevent it from degenerating into any species of oppression…....
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world a the former examples we have given them. The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberations...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, George Washington, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“The Constitution…approaches nearer to perfection than any government hitherto instituted among men.” Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, 29 August 1788, Fitzpatrick 30:73.
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, George Washington, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“It appears to me….little short of a miracle that the delegates from so many different states…are also so different from each other in their manners, circumstances, and prejudices… should uniute in forming a system of national government so...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Ben Franklin, Constitution, Founders, Quotes, Uncategorized
“I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] … should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced,...
