Your task is to copy/paste a quote referring to the US Constitution by a Founding Father or historical person (Charlie Sheen does not count!) and EXPLAIN what the quote means... and you may not use a quote that has already been posted, so read thoroughly through them.
An example of where to find some quotes is at this website, http://thinkexist.com/quotations/constitution/ however, this is not the only website.
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
ReplyDelete~Abraham Lincoln
He says that the Constitution should not be changed, and it should stay the same. But there were, of course, many amendments. o.o
-Keith Strege, P.6
“"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams
ReplyDeleteWhat he was saying was that our liberty and rights were worth working and fighting for. Our ancestors got us here through hard work. Our ancestors survived here through hard work. Our ancestors defended us from the British and other countries through hard work. So not caring would be throwing all that away.
"our new constitutoin is now established and has a appearence that promises permanency;but in this world nothing can be said to be certain except taxes and debt" Benjamin Franklin
ReplyDeletehe is saying that nothing can be permanant with the changing times except for the inevitable: by TJ Tully
“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
ReplyDelete― Benjamin Franklin
Just because the constitution says you can pursue happiness, that doesnt mean it is just handed to you. You have to work for what you earn.
Zach Pruente
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." Thomas Jefferson
ReplyDeletevictoria ewing
“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon”
ReplyDelete-George Washington
He is saying that he believes in the constitution and he will always fallow what it says.
Deborah Rao
"The time comes upon every public man when it's best for him to to keep his lips closed."
ReplyDelete~Abraham Licoln
I think it means that somethimes it's best not to say anything because it may start a fight or you will get your self in trouble by saying something that won't sit very well with somebody.
"(T)he foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; ...the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained..." George Washington.
ReplyDeleteHe is saying that the US Constitution is for everyone in there own little way, and he is also saying that God does not like us to break the rules we have in the Constitution.
"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning." ~Benjamin Franklin
ReplyDeleteI think it means that since he was dying it didn't matter to him that he was dying and that he was ready to go.
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” -Patrick Henry.
ReplyDeleteHenry is trying to say that the constitution is not for the government to have total control. It's for all to know what their government is and how they can stop the government from doing things.
ReplyDelete“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”-Patrick Henry
This quote means that the government doesnt have more control over the people, the people have more control over the government.
-Hayley Fill
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” George Washington.
ReplyDeleteHe is saying that, the people who make up excuses for their mistakes will fail. And the people who own up to it and fix it and try hard will fall into success.
Mia Schulze.
“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use”
ReplyDeleteAbraham Lincoln
He is saying that we did not need slaves when we were fighting Great Britain but he is afraid that people will abuse other people in what they are capable of. For example slaves (so the farmers did not have to tend or word on their farms but to watch others to it for them).
Jack Caden
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.
ReplyDelete-James Madison
He is saying that a government will help us get through our troubled times and get us to where we need to be.
lauren Markham
Patrick Henry said give me liberty or give me death he was trying to say was we all demand liberty at once. so inorder complete this pleed for help the war escalaites to defeat the british from torment and finaly be free and happy as a nation should be.jusrdez fiallo
ReplyDeleteWar, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perseverance, by time, and by practice.
ReplyDeleteAlexander Hamilton
War is something that needs to be learned you just can't pick it up. You need to have patience.
Victoria gonzalez
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
ReplyDelete— Abraham Lincoln
It's saying a government created by its citizens and run by its citizens is a government that has people's best interest in mind.
-Kelsey Tomlinson
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
ReplyDeleteJames Madison, Essay on Property, March 29, 1792
In its larger meaning, it embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every one else the advantage.
Jarod Lynch
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
ReplyDeleteHe was saying the constitution was made for the good religious people.He is also saying that it is way to good for any other government.
Jake Bowman
William Paterson- said “ Upon some americans seemed to agree with Paine's work he started Infatuated Americans, where is thy blush". Is this the way to continue independance, and to render the 4th of July immortal in memory and song?
ReplyDelete"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
ReplyDeleteBenjamin Franklin
This means that the Constitution gives you the right to pursue happiness, but that doesn't mean that it just simply gives you happiness. You must catch up with it yourself.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
ReplyDelete-Lyndon B. Johnson
He means that because our Constitution is so great at protecting us and keeping everything it put in place a reality today, there is plenty of room to create things in politics to continue making America strong.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ReplyDelete-Abraham Lincoln-
This quote is saying that if people stay apart of the governmental process, it will be good. As long as we are governed by people and not by a person we are less likely to turn into a society with a dictator.
Gracie Leone
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
ReplyDeleteFranklin D. Roosevelt
I believe that this means that Franklin D. Roosevelt thinks that the constitution is the most important thing yet to happen in the history of the government of the United States of America.
-Mason Kinnaird
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” -Abraham Lincoln
ReplyDeleteI think it means that everything in our Constitution is for the good of the people so don't try and change it.
-Emily Walsh
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
ReplyDelete― Martin Luther King Jr.
If you add bad to bad it still is bad.
You need good to get rid of the bad
-Logan LeBrun - + - = -
"If all men were angels, government wouldn't be necessary."-James Madison
ReplyDeleteSo what he means is that if we were all angels, there would be no crime, and therefore no need for government, we'd all do just exactly what we should do. We would not need a government to rule us, because we'd be doing what we should without anyone human tell us what to do and not to do. He is also saying that some people will take advantage of each other; they would pretty much do anything if it benefitted them. The people in the government aren’t any different , they use their positions to reward their friends and push their enemies.
-Sarjna Shah
James Madison
ReplyDeleteA dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
I think it means people need something to depend on but everything they've been through has made it hard for them to trust the people with the power
“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag”
ReplyDeleteCraig Washington quotes
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”
ReplyDeleteOliver Wendell
To me it says nothing is more important in the constitution is our freedom!
Love,
Lance
" I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himselfin the flag."- Craig Washington
ReplyDeleteI think he means he would give away his freedom but want to keep. His freedom of speech, instead of give away his freedom of speech but keep his freedom.
-Alyssa Lowe 3rd
“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use”- Mr.Abe
ReplyDeleteI think my friend abe up there^ was merely trying to say that the seperation of britain did not follow the excerpt from the decleration.But simply placed there for the purpose of future prevention of the possible mistake. :)
The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them”
ReplyDeleteJason Laumark
I think it means that they need to look at the Constitution in a different. They might mean that they should recognize it in a new way and be happy of what they wrote.
“The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity”
ReplyDelete-Henry Clay
This quote means that the Constitution was not limited to govern over only the generation that created it, but was created to govern also over all the generations of America after the first. The Constitution is strong enough to be used to govern America back then, today, and forevermore.
"The Constitution doesnt guarentee rights, it reconizes them."
ReplyDeleteThis means that the constitution gives you rights but if you break the law like say you are in prison you lose some of the rights that you had before!!
-Austin Iven
"To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution."-Ron Paul
ReplyDeleteI think what he's trying to say is that our constitution is to important to go to waste, and that it's one of the good things in America and we need to try to keep it.
-Kacey Mckeehan
All men are created equal
ReplyDeleteaberaham lincoln.
I hink this means that just because of ur race or ethniticity that all men/women are created wih the same respect as dtheir peers and neihbors.
Jordan mcdaniek
“‘We the people’ tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us. ‘We the people’ are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which ‘We the people’ tell the government what it is allowed to do.” – Ronald Reagan
ReplyDeleteRonald Reagan is saying that it is the people who are in charge of our government. The government shouldn’t be in charge of the people. It is our Constitution that gives the people this right.
"The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax"- Thomas Paine
ReplyDeleteWhat Thomas Paine means is that, like grammer is to language, the constitution is the basis for all liberty. Without the constitution, none of our efforts for liberty would make sense. We would not have any means of going out and getting what we wanted, because there would be no rubric, and therefore no liberty.- Emma Hinkley
The constitution dosent give you the rights it just makes it visable.
ReplyDeleteKade Veovich
"The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them."
ReplyDelete-Jason Laumark
To me this means that just because the Constitution says that you have these rights, doesnt mean you will always have those rights.
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. -Andrew Jackson
ReplyDeleteThis quote means that the Constitution is made to control the power, meaning to give it to the President. He also says that the executive branch is dedicated to the president.
-Anna Janczak
George Washington said: "The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon"
ReplyDeleteHe is saying that he believes our country will thrive if will all follow it.
-Eli Hernandez
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
ReplyDeletePatrick Henry quote
This means let the constitution be a guide line to the goverenment. Being one for the goverenment will make it one for the people through the goverenment.
-Callie Burke