Constitutionalism Quotes

“The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the revolution of 1688 is this, that it was our last revolution. Several generations have now passed away since any wise and patriotic Englishman has meditated resistance to the established government. In all honest and reflecting minds there is a conviction, daily strengthened by experience, that the means of effecting every improvement which the constitution requires may be found within the constitution itself.”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay

“Without the competing tugs of aristocracy and democracy, kingship would easily slide into monarchial tyranny; so too, if left unchecked, aristocracy would decay into oligarchy; and democracy into mob rule.”
― Akhil Reed Amar, Of Sovereignty and Federalism