Assumption Quote by James Q. Wilson

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty…

— Michael Kinsley

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

— Alexander Hamilton

The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.

— Max Baucus

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we…

— Marco Rubio

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

— Jean O'Leary

Our Constitution is a mighty document, but the rights it secures require constant vigilance - and the unwavering voices of justices who dissent against…

— Jonathan Capehart

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it…

— Thomas Paine

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

— Alan Dershowitz

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

— Mike Rounds

I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Rand Paul

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution,…

— Thomas Jefferson