Changed Quote by Levi Woodbury

The rule of law is a republic. The rule of one person is a monarchy.

— Lee Zeldin

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when…

— John Marshall

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

— Alexander Hamilton

The rule of law is the most basic principle on which our Constitution is based.

— Prashant Bhushan

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

— William H. Seward

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

— Algernon Sidney

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of…

— Aristotle

“A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and wherever it…

— Thomas Paine

The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established…

— James Madison

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of…

— Aristotle

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

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of…

— Thomas Paine