Constitution Quote by John Marshall

Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out seldom, if…

— John Marshall

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

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

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as…

— Lysander Spooner

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that…

— Thomas Paine

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without…

— Thomas Paine

It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of…

— James Madison

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary…

— Benjamin Franklin

All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with…

— Wen Jiabao