Interpretation of the Constitution
Abstract
“ W e are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the Court says it is.” 1 In the century since Charles Evans Hughes, then governor of New York and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, uttered these now famous words, they have been repeated so often and in so many contexts that they have assumed a prescriptive as well as a descriptive character. But exactly how valid is this prescription for understanding the US Constitution?
Fields of Study & Subjects
American Constitutional Law and Politics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- American Constitutional Law 8E, 2-VOL SET
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Pages
- 1–19
- Publication date
- 20 April 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter