Diane Wood Quotes
"The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses."
- Diane Wood
(Related: Time, Flexibility, Generations, Needs)
"There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses."
- Diane Wood
(Related: Time, Flexibility, Generations, Needs, Reason, World)
"Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights."
- Diane Wood
(Related: Constitution, Rights, Words)