American constitution Quote by Joseph J. Ellis

“our Constitution can be understood by any American with average intelligence and minimal education.”

— Joseph Befumo

“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution…

— Mark David Ledbetter

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

— Frederick Douglass

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

— Dahlia Lithwick

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

— Antonin Scalia

The central genius of the American Constitution lies in its use of structure to protect individual liberty. It does not rely solely, or even…

— William Barr

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

— Chuck Norris

We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the…

— William J. Brennan

“They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really…

— Jay Leno

You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This…

— James Madison

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Like biblical literalists, Republicans assert that the Constitution is divinely inspired and inerrant. But also like biblical literalists, they are strangely selective about those…

— Mike Lofgren