I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Obama administration has abused the executive power, enforcing Common Core on the states. It has used race to the top fans… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
If Trump wants to corruptly direct the conduct of an investigation in order to out an FBI source who was helping our… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny.… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the… — Richard Stengel Copy Share Image
More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Church, the spiritual power, and the executive power are working today united in a system that confronts people. This alliance or cooperation… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
“The government tried to justify the secret NSA program by invoking exactly the kind of extreme theory of executive power that had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“ Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities… The most… — Wheeler McMillen Copy Share Image
“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood;… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image