Change Quote by Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public…

— Ichiro Ozawa

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

— Maxime Bernier

That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their…

— John Marshall

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there…

— Anonymous

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it…

— Thomas Paine

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from…

— Barbara Boxer

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil.…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the…

— Joseph Story

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and…

— Joseph Sobran

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited,…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them…

— Alexander Hamilton

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple,…

— Charles Edison