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The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

— Bernie Sanders

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to…

— Sam Brownback

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I…

— Byron Dorgan

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

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 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

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

— Carl Levin

even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but…

— Ernestine Rose

There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all…

— Thomas Jefferson

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

— Adrian Cronauer

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

— Bill Vaughan

“The people’s right to alter or abolish their form of government was, to the American revolutionaries, supposedly absolute. Yet, strangely, neither the people nor…

— Garrett Epps