Ferdinand Lassalle

“The constitutional questions, are in the first instance, not questions of right, but questions of might”. –Ferdinand Lassalle

Henry Steele Commager

“The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted”. –Henry Steele Commager

John Marshall

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will”. –John Marshall

Francis Biddle

“The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President”. –Francis Biddle