Quotes About Constitutional Interpretation

#1. This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions.

Stephen Breyer

#2. Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

Edwin Meese

#3. The moment that we think we know, we've lost our perspective on wisdom.

Diana Butler Bass

#4. This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; [70] He only in a general honest thought And common good to all made one of them. His

William Shakespeare

#5. Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

Immanuel Kant

#6. I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does.

Jessi Klein

#7. people's attempts to mangle religious doctrines to fit their own purposes.

Joyce Brandon

#8. A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that says 'x,' but no constitutional system works if it just follows what's in that written constitution and never changes. Interpretation gives it the freedom to change.

Noah Feldman

#9. I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A ... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.

Stewart Butterfield

#10. Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order

William J. Brennan

#11. I'm not recognised much at all.

Laura Carmichael