Amendment Quote by Max Baucus

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

— Barack Obama

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

— Mike Rounds

The American Founding Fathers gave us courts, independent jurists. They left room for civil society, which meant that citizens could directly associate in order…

— Condoleezza Rice

Americans revere both the Constitution and an independent Court that applies the document's provisions. The Court has done many excellent things in our history,…

— Robert Bork

In my lifetime, it's the Supreme Court, not Congress, that integrated our public schools, that allowed people of different races to marry, and established…

— Dick Durbin

I revere the Constitution.

— Brett Kavanaugh

“How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating in its…

— Jack N. Rakove

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty…

— Michael Kinsley

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support…

— James Q. Wilson

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In our system of government, the Supreme Court ultimately decides on the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress or of presidential actions. When their…

— William Barr

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to…

— Sam Brownback