The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.