Believe Quote by Sonia Sotomayor

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside.... If I had the authority to…

— John Ashcroft

The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the…

— Kishore Chandra Deo

“The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.”

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they…

— Thomas Jefferson

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe…

— Dennis Cardoza

We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United States of…

— Alan Dershowitz

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

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

— Oliver DeMille

If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature…

— Alexander Hamilton

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

— Dan Coats

The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

— Samuel Adams