Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Constitution

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  • In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'

    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.

    "Thatcher visits her old friend Pinochet", www.theguardian.com. March 26, 1999.
  • For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

    "The Path to Power". Book by Margaret Thatcher, 1995.
  • Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

    "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.
  • Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

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Margaret Thatcher

  • Born: October 13, 1925
  • Died: April 8, 2013
  • Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom