428 Quotes About Constitution

Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.

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 of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the debates—the course of events—over more than two centuries. It is not easy, but it is everyone’s.

The constitutional right of today may be a violation of human rights tomorrow, hence, no constitution, and in fact, no text is to be taken as gospel… they must be scrutinized by each new generation and if found incompatible with the new society, must be either amended or discarded altogether.

If you treat the constitution the same way fundamentalists treat the bible, you are going to have a very sick society on your hands.

Politics should be for people, politics shouldn't be for politicians.

If the [Supreme] Court's job is to interpret the Constitution, then by definition, it must be open to interpretation.

If an immigrant's daughter can become the vice-president of our United States, then the day is not far that even an immigrant can become the president - of course it'll require further amendments to the constitution, but that day our sweet land of liberty will truly be an advanced nation on earth.

They disregard what our fifty- six forefathers established. They copyright what is constituted as righteous, changing two letter words, giving it a totally different meaningThey disregard what has been amended, turning the other cheek as if they don't see nor hear our cries for justice! Devils!