Constitution Quote by James K. Polk

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

— James Madison

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

— James K. Polk

“The Constitution seeks to protect the basic rights of the people and the spirit of human liberty against encroachment by the state. Hence”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“The purpose of our Constitution—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee—is to protect minority rights even when, or especially when, they are unpopular.”

— Michelle Alexander

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

— John C. Calhoun

Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them…

— William Howard Taft

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any…

— William J. Brennan

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

— Calvin Coolidge

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is…

— Jacob G. Hornberger