Constitution Quote by Antonin Scalia

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

— Romano Prodi

Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a…

— Joseph Sobran

“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution…

— Mark David Ledbetter

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

— Chuck Norris

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

— Oswald Spengler

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

“our Constitution can be understood by any American with average intelligence and minimal education.”

— Joseph Befumo

The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and…

— Anonymous

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

— Felix Frankfurter

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

— Dan Coats

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

— Joseph J. Ellis

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

— Ed Markey