Government Quote by David E. Wilkins

We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its…

— James Bryce

Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the…

— W. Cleon Skousen

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the…

— Bill Vaughan

On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The Constitution was a reaffirmation of faith in the principles painfully evolved over the centuries by the English-speaking peoples. It enshrined long-standing English ideas…

— Winston S. Churchill

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times…

— Felix Frankfurter

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

— Woodrow Wilson

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain…

— Thurgood Marshall

Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been…

— John Quincy Adams

That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to…

— Antonin Scalia

“All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue,…

— John Adams