Constitution Quote by Richard Allen Epstein

This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to…

— Stephen Breyer

No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Maxime Bernier

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.

— Rexford Tugwell

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is…

— John C. Calhoun

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

— George Meany

A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.

— Alexander Hamilton

“Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by…

— Barry M. Goldwater

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government -…

— Mike Huckabee

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible…

— Alexander Hamilton

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

— Arthur Lynch

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

— James Madison