Bears Quote by A. V. Dicey

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

— Charles Evans Hughes

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

— Anthony Kennedy

After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts…

— Mike DeWine

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of…

— Thomas Paine

The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.

— Fred Rodell

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential…

— Margaret Thatcher

Judges are either partial to the Constitution or they aren't; they either believe that the document is perfect in its form and that rights…

— Dana Loesch

It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property…

— Charles Evans Hughes

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power,…

— Thomas Sowell

One of our Constitution's greatest virtues is that it looks to judges as a source of reasoned, practical, rights-minded decision making.

— Neal Katyal