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The Constitutional Council conquered, during the last 30 years, a leading place among the French institutions. Its visibility grew significantly, arousing spontaneous interpellations from common citizens. From a sample of mails sent to the judges of the Constitutional Council during the 1990s, this article draws up a first listing of the ordinary manners of how the institution is used. Via the categories of the expert, of the citizen confronting Justice, and the citizen taking the initiative of writing, it shows that at least three well differentiated types are implemented, which can be understood in reference to the perceptions of the nine wise men that the authors have, to the resources which they invest by writing, and to the retributionexpected from their initiative.