Barriers Quote by Arnold Kling

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of…

— James Madison

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

— Rand Paul

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

— Rand Paul

The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.

— Ayelet Shaked

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

— Abraham Lincoln

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into…

— Angela Merkel

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

— Edward Snowden

“We see then, in the first years of the Constitution, that some of its provisions—even those paraded most flamboyantly (like the First Amendment)—might be…

— Howard Zinn

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

— William H. Seward