Constitution Quote by John Tyler

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

— Woodrow Wilson

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they…

— Thomas Jefferson

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

— Maxime Bernier

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how…

— Eliot Spitzer

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized…

— Frank Herbert

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times…

— Felix Frankfurter

The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.

— Angela Merkel

“Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized…

— Frank Herbert

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

— Henry Clay

That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to…

— Antonin Scalia

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

— Felix Frankfurter

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there…

— Anonymous