Adopted Quote by Thomas Jefferson

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a…

— Diane Wood

“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived…

— David E. Wilkins

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

— Dan Coats

“The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made…

— Jill Lepore

“To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician. Necessity and…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Or I remember in 1987, when there was a big hoopla about the bicentennial of the Constitution, the Boston Globe published one of my…

— Noam Chomsky

“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution…

— Mark David Ledbetter

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out…

— George Bernard Shaw

The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we had an…

— John Lewis

“Our forefathers bequeathed to us far more than a republic. They willed to us an enduring Constitution that incorporates more thought and brainpower than…

— James D. Best

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document,…

— Mike DeWine

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened…

— Caleb Cushing