Felix Frankfurter Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• 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.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Understanding, Tools

  "Reader's Digest" Magazine, June 1964.

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

  Felix Frankfurter

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Constitution

  "Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 466". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 27, 1939.

• 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.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Reading, Justice, Decision

  "Parliamentary Affairs". "The Supreme Court", Volume 3, No. 1, Winter 1949.

• One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Judging, Catholic, Minorities

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (dissenting opinion) (1943)

• Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

  Felix Frankfurter

  Sports, Wind, Doctrine

  "West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 14, 1943.

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