The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.
Constitution Quotes
Americans don’t need black-robed justices divining the meaning of the Constitution. The Constitution was written by our founding fathers as a document that could be understood by ordinary citizens without law degrees from Harvard or Yale à or even in spite of such credentials. We have allowed ourselves to be hoodwinked into believing that we […]
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by… any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
All the foundations before mentioned, of the federal government, are by the proposed system to be established, in the most clear, strong, positive, unequivocal expressions, of which our language is capable. Magna charta, or any other law, never contained clauses more decisive and emphatic. While the people of these states have sense, they will understand […]
There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
If the Constitution is to be construed to mean what the majority at any given period in history wish the Constitution to mean, why a written Constitution?
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.
Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?
The Fourteenth Amendment… was adopted with a view to the protection of the colored race, but has been found to be equally important in its application to the rights of all.
