The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Oft have I marked, with silent pleasure and admiration, the force and prevalence, through the United States, of the principle that the supreme power resides in the people, and that they never part with it. It may be called the panacea in politics.

The constitution of Zimbabwe guarantees all individuals the right to legal representation and lawyers are empowered and obliged to represent their clients.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness. It’s as if we were working together on the same statue, cutting it out of each other’s misery. But I don’t even know the design.