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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

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only…

— Thomas Sowell

The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that…

— John Marshall

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

— Stephen Ambrose

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

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

— A. V. Dicey

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

— Charles Evans Hughes

“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

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

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of…

— Thomas Paine

Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a…

— Joseph Sobran

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