The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
What's blinking red on my radar is the fact that for people who prioritize abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights, those… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress. — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few. — Rufus King Copy Share Image
If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
Every individual who participated in the redistricting process knew that incumbency protection was a critical factor in producing the bizarre lines. ...… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
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