[John] Adams identified himself with the political…

“English political sagacity is compounded of instinctive reactions to immediate situations and a wisdom, gained by cumulative experience, which guides instinct through the complexities,…

— Reinhold Neibuhr

“People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.”

— A.E. Samaan

“Our Constitution is based on three fundamentals, which form the core of constitutionalism. They are: (1)A written Constitution (2)A chapter on fundamental rights (3)Limited…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without…

— Clinton Rossiter

One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order to truly…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

“Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had…

— Orlando Figes

“Constitutionalism as a guiding political tendency will require careful and thoughtful development, as did jurisprudential originalism. But its wide appeal and philosophical depth make…

— Charles Krauthammer

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

— Samuel P. Huntington

If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start reinstituting all…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

— Nancy Pearcey

“The People’s Daily summoned the language of another era and warned that constitutionalism, the call to put the Party under the rule of law,…

— Evan Osnos

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

— David Remnick

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain…

— George Will

Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and Hume and…

— Oliver DeMille

The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear…

— Lord Chesterfield