3 Felix Frankfurter Quotes on Constitution

Felix Frankfurter quotes on constitution

8. The words of the Constitution ... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

16. All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

23. The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.