Ancient Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state,…

— Aristotle

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

Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three forms of…

— John Adams

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which…

— Ronald Reagan

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

What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall…

— Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

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

The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while…

— Walter Bagehot

Any kind of new U.K. federal system would almost certainly demand the creation of a written constitution. Properly drafted, such a document could, among…

— Linda Colley

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

— Aristotle

“A Constitution is] The set of the most important rules and common understandings in any given country that regulate[s] the relations among that country’s…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly