Accepted Quote by Ferdinand Mount

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

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

— Rand Paul

The Constitution has to be supreme.

— Nawaz Sharif

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of…

— Aristotle

[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

— Romano Prodi

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

— Rand Paul

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

— Maxime Bernier

Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be…

— Alexander Hamilton

A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning,…

— Alexander Hamilton

As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.

— Gina Miller

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

— Charles Evans Hughes