Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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How many amendments to the Constitution have been advocated and urged in the long period since the Colonies became States under it I do not know, and if we did know, the information would be curious rather than valuable. It is enough to know that many and great changes have...
Veneration and admiration of and for the Constitution need not and should not cause us to forget that men--great men, many of them, but yet all mere men--framed it, in the light of their day; that everyone of them is dead; that now the Constitution is for us...
Why should we so completely lose ourselves in admiration of the Fathers, so glorify their wisdom and courage, by confessing that we are weak and foolish, and by demonstrating our timidity? If the Fathers had lacked the moral courage to consider even the question of the practicability and desirability of...
Even if the Convention were to come and go without a single change in the Constitution, still it would not have been created in vain. A centring of thought upon the Constitution and upon propositions for amendment, and their serious consideration, sure to attend and follow the amendment movement, could...
The argument that constant sport turns a man from his studies is equally absurd. If a man wants to study, there is plenty of time to do so; and if he doesn't wish to study more than the minimum required, no restriction of the kind that this rule enforces...