Cases Quote by Thomas Jefferson

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited,…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

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

— Prashant Bhushan

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

— George Washington

“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 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

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

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which…

— Ronald Reagan

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state,…

— Aristotle

The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that…

— John Marshall

“A Constitution is] The set of the most important rules and common understandings in any given country that regulate[s] the relations among that country’s…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without…

— Thomas Paine

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

— John C. Calhoun