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
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 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
“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
“ 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
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“Executive power thus could be exercised adjacent to legislation without actually trespassing on legislative power. The executive, for example, could make regulations… — Philip Hamburger 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 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
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
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Under Article II, all executive power is vested in one president of the United States. The regulatory state is Congress's efforts to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
President Clinton invoked executive power a bunch of times... I think once he started doing that, the courts really pushed back on… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
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