Accepted Quote by F. W. de Klerk

The ANC is more important than the Constitution.

— Jacob Zuma

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

If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a…

— William Paterson

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

— Edward Coke

All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with…

— Wen Jiabao

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory…

— John Marshall

Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out seldom, if…

— John Marshall

Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as…

— James Madison

The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would…

— Alexander Hamilton

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the…

— Thomas Sowell