Constitution Archives Quiz – Monday, March 10, 2014

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In her essay on Federalist #62, Janine Turner identifies a quote that is very relevant today:

“The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action n; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?”

Question for Monday, March 10: Please list another quote in Federalist #62 that Janine mentions in her essay as relevant or profound.

For today only, the first five to post a quote from Federalist #62 that Janine cites as relevant or profound win a free copy of Constituting America National Youth Director, Juliette Turner’s Our Constitution Rocks and all are entered in our final drawing! 

Answer the question in the “reply” box below:

10 replies
  1. Spencer Kawalek
    Spencer Kawalek says:

    “What indeed are all the repealing, explaining and amending laws, which fill and disgrace our voluminous codes, but so many monuments of deficient wisdom.”

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    • Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie
      Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie says:

      Hooray Spencer! You are the first winner in our contest! For Monday’s question we are sending Juliette’s “Our Constitution Rocks” to the first five winners. Please sign up with us at this link:https://constitutingamerica.org/signup.php we have all your info and we will get your book out to you right away!

      Thank you for answering – please keep checking each Monday, Wednesday and Friday for new quiz questions – the more you enter and win the more chances you have of winning the drawing for our a grand prize – the Constituting America Goodie Bag!

      Joyfully,
      Janine & Cathy

      Reply
  2. Ja'Lisha Urquhart
    Ja'Lisha Urquhart says:

    “No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.”

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    • Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie
      Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie says:

      Ja’Lisha! Brilliant! You are our second winner for Monday’s question!

      For Monday’s question we are sending Juliette’s “Our Constitution Rocks” to the first five winners. Please sign up with us at this link: https://constitutingamerica.org/signup.php
      so we have all your info and we will get your book out to you right away!

      Thank you for answering – please keep checking each Monday, Wednesday and Friday for new quiz questions – the more you enter and win the more chances you have of winning the drawing for our a grand prize – the Constituting America Goodie Bag!

      Joyfully,
      Janine & Cathy

      Reply
  3. Tina Bogani
    Tina Bogani says:

    It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

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    • Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie
      Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie says:

      Yes!! Tina, this is one of our favorite quotes of all time!
      You are our Third winner for Monday’s question!

      For Monday’s question we are sending Juliette’s “Our Constitution Rocks” to the first five winners. Please sign up with us at this link: https://constitutingamerica.org/signup.php
      so we have all your info and we will get your book out to you right away!

      Thank you for answering – please keep checking each Monday, Wednesday and Friday for new quiz questions – the more you enter and win the more chances you have of winning the drawing for our a grand prize – the Constituting America Goodie Bag!

      Joyfully,
      Janine & Cathy

      Reply
  4. Jahanara Hoque
    Jahanara Hoque says:

    “’Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the industrious and uniformed mass of the people.’”I think that in this case, the “moneyed few” are the corporations, and it is relevant today in how congress, and the president are swayed by their money in support of bills that protect that corporation from free market competition, and consumers from being informed about the quality of their finished products sold to retailers.

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    • Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie
      Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie says:

      Great work, Jahanara!
      You are our Fourth winner for Monday’s question!

      For Monday’s question we are sending Juliette’s “Our Constitution Rocks” to the first five winners. Please sign up with us at this link: https://constitutingamerica.org/signup.php
      so we have all your info and we will get your book out to you right away!

      Thank you for answering – please keep checking each Monday, Wednesday and Friday for new quiz questions – the more you enter and win the more chances you have of winning the drawing for our a grand prize – the Constituting America Goodie Bag!

      Joyfully,
      Janine & Cathy

      Reply
  5. Ron Meier
    Ron Meier says:

    “No law of resolution can no be passed without the concurrence, first, of a majority of the people, and then of a majority of the states.”

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  6. Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie
    Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie says:

    Howdy Ron! We are so happy you are our fifth winner for Monday’s Question!

    For Monday’s question we are sending Juliette’s “Our Constitution Rocks” to the first five winners. Please sign up with us at this link: https://constitutingamerica.org/signup.php
    so we have all your info and we will get your book out to you right away!

    Thank you for answering – please keep checking each Monday, Wednesday and Friday for new quiz questions – the more you enter and win the more chances you have of winning the drawing for our a grand prize – the Constituting America Goodie Bag!

    Joyfully,
    Janine & Cathy

    Reply

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