Constitution Quote by Harlan F. Stone

The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and…

— Anonymous

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

The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation…

— Melville Fuller

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

— Ed Markey

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

— Antonin Scalia

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“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

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 amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the…

— William J. Brennan

No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not"…

— Edmund A. Opitz

“Anyone who writes a law that cannot be easily understood by an average citizen is not worthy of leadership. The Constitution, which was written…

— Ben Carson

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

— Stephen Ambrose