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— Alexis de Tocqueville"The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage."
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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
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