428 Quotes About Constitution

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

With sincerity, I swear to the people of this country that I will follow the constitution to increase the people's welfare and safeguard the country,

Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

The new Constitution is founded on the principles of the protection of human rights on the one hand, and the renunciation of war on the other.

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

To be on the road and do that shows tremendous constitution and heart by our team.

The plain import of the clause is, that congress shall have all the incidental and instrumental powers, necessary and proper to carry into execution all the express powers. It neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to congress. But it is merely a declaration for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those, otherwise granted, are included in the grant.

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant.