Constitution Quote by Ed Markey

“The United States Constitution turned 225 years old in 2012. It is the central document of American history and politics. From all sides of…

— Garrett Epps

“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made…

— Jill Lepore

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

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

“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

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

The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that…

— Felix Frankfurter

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old!…

— Antonio Banderas

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

— Antonin Scalia

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

— Maxime Bernier

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

— Anonymous