Absence Quote by Keir Starmer

Any kind of new U.K. federal system would almost certainly demand the creation of a written constitution. Properly drafted, such a document could, among…

— Linda Colley

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential…

— Margaret Thatcher

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

— Stephen Breyer

Thousands of E.U. law instruments have come onto the U.K. statute book - all without the democratic legitimacy our constitutional traditions expect.

— Suella Braverman

As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.

— Gina Miller

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

Although England, and the rest of the United Kingdom, possesses momentous constitutional texts and significant statutes, since the 1600s there has been no systematic…

— Linda Colley

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among…

— Patrick Henry

Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

— Adam Davidson

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work…

— William E. Gladstone

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

— Suharto