Federalism doesn't empower D.C. to dictate to the states or the local level. — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union. — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
“The first grand federalist design...was that of the Bible, most particularly the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament... Biblical thought is federal (from… — Daniel J. Elazar 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 scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I don't trust that the big-business part of our coalition is ever going to defend federalism and argue against regulatory capture. I… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle,… — Herbert Croly 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
The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Federalism is not one state dictating to the rest of the country what should occur in the area of CAFE. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
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