We are in desperate need of a return to limited, constitutional government. — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years. — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
If we add state capitalism to the Bush administration's success in eroding both the US Constitution and the power of Congress, we… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government. — David Brock Copy Share Image
The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of… — Benjamin F. Grady Copy Share Image
If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. — Siraj Wahhaj Copy Share Image
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion … It does not remain fixed in any unchanging… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it… — George Washington Copy Share Image
To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty in the United States will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think any good judge recognizes his or her place in our constitutional government, and that place is not to upset the… — Thomas Hardiman Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
Christians, above all people, should desire that their elected representatives submit to the Constitution, because it is constitutional government that has done… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the… — William E. Jenner Copy Share Image
A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
