Jed S. Rakoff

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights in the Constitution, have to protect the requirement that the executive and the legislature not simply exercise raw power but adhere to standards of reasonableness and constitutionality.

American Judge

Benjamin Wittes

The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action programs. But almost no one seriously argues about the basic meaning or legitimacy of core civil-rights protections.

American Journalist

William Barr

In our system of government, the Supreme Court ultimately decides on the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress or of presidential actions. When their actions are challenged, both Congress and the president are entitled to have their positions forcefully advocated in court.

American Public Servant

Gary Bauer

Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

John C. Calhoun

A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.

American Statesman

John Podhoretz

The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.

American Writer

Mike DeWine

On my first day in office as Ohio attorney general, I authorized Ohio to join the multistate lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare.

American Politician

Rohini Nilekani

We all need good laws, and an independent, impartial, and efficient judiciary to verify the constitutionality of those laws.

Indian Writer

Felix Frankfurter

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

Everett Dirksen

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Used when discussing laws and their alignment with the constitution.

Legal Context

Often appears in legal arguments and court decisions.

Court Discussions

Common in debates about government actions and policies.

Political Debates

 in honor of the legacy of young people that have come before, so that they will have guideposts and signs to be the change that they want to see in this world, as Claudette Colvin was. Because she struck down the constitutionality of segregated seats

Stories: Legacies of who...

 And besides the harm for women, those justices are not really considering the constitutionality of the act, only who can be sued and where. The more important case is out of Mississippi.

Constitutionality