"So, while the people are indeed supreme over the written Constitution, the spiritual constitution is supreme over the…"

"A constitution, as Solon said, is good for a certain people and for a certain time. It shouldn’t be mummified."

"A constitution is made of a spirit, institutions, and a practice."

"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."

"If a written constitution is not in close accord with the way the society itself is constituted, it will be irrelevan…"

"Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and t…"

"Constitutions are intended to preserve practical and substantial rights, not to maintain theories."

"Now and then, an extraordinary case may turn up, but constitutional law, like other mortal contrivances, has to take …"

"By reducing too the faculty of borrowing within it's natural limits, it would bridle the spirit of war, to which too …"

"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to…"