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-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
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-- Justice Melville Weston Fuller
(1833-1910) Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1888-1910
Source: delivering the opinion of the court in MCPHERSON v. BLACKER, 146 U.S. 1 (1892)
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-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Elizabeth.Cady.Stanton.Quote.093D
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."
-- James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Madison.Quote.50B9
"The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight."
-- Justice Melville Weston Fuller
(1833-1910) Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1888-1910
Source: delivering the opinion of the court in MCPHERSON v. BLACKER, 146 U.S. 1 (1892)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Melville.Fuller.Quote.5423
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