Maxime Bernier Quotes

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

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.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

Constitutional interpretation ... is a process of holding an actual government within certain bounds.

The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace.

The Constitution of the United States is not a suicide pact.

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

The Constitution is a document that SHOULD be beyond argument.

The purpose of a written constitution is to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.

The original Constitution was devoted primarily to the mechanisms of democratic choice.... [It] provided wide powers to the representative assemblies and ruled only a few subjects off limits by the Constitution.

The federal constitution is perhaps the greatest of human experiments.

The Constitution is a list of things the government may not do.

The whole point of the Constitution is to limit at some point and in some way popular will.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written constitution

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

The Constitution is not just a legal argument. It is a set of norms and practices and it’s a political document…

The Framers of the Constitution wisely understood that constitutional principles must not be sacrificed on the altar of political appeasement.

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.

I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue.

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.