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Constitutional Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes QUOTES

Constitutional Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes QUOTES

1 " Burke writes: We wished at the period of the Revolution, and do now wish, to derive all we possess as an inheritance from our forefathers… . The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution than any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree, for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. Thus "

― Cass R. Sunstein , Constitutional Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes

2 " The first paragraph of The Federalist, No. 1 offers the following contrast: “It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. "

― Cass R. Sunstein , Constitutional Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes