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There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

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.

Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'