Kenneth Davis Quotes on Constitution (2 Quotes)

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down intact. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

But it's that flexibility, that elasticity of the Constitution that allows for that, and so that's part of its extraordinary brilliance that has allowed it to last as long as it has.