Constitution Quote by Jill Lepore

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

— Ed Markey

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

— Stephen Ambrose

“As a man, I have a strong constitution. But as a document, I’m no Constitution of the United States—as I’m quite a bit wordier,…

— Jarod Kintz

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 people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.”

— John Marshall

The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single…

— Frederick Douglass

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

“The constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper”

— George W Bush

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating in its…

— Jack N. Rakove