Conformity Quote by Thomas Paine

“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

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 laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of…

— Aristotle

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

— A. V. Dicey

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 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

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

— Charles Evans Hughes

In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all,…

— Aristotle

The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be…

— Thomas Jefferson

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized…

— Frank Herbert

A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning,…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs…

— Theodore Roosevelt