My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe in the separation of powers. If a judge crosses the line between interpreting and making the law, he has crossed… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers;… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body.… — Alexander Hamilton 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 spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man… — George Will Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“In a recurring theme among progressives, Croly condemned the Constitution’s separation of powers, a doctrine essential to averting centralized tyranny, as the… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If this new breed of activist urged Obama to hammer away at the Constitution, old-school civil libertarians lamented its demolition. The longtime… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“In any event, one must consider the broader implications of a frontal assault on the separation of powers as outdated, ineffective, and… — Thomas O. Sargentich 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
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
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Obama administration demonstrated time and again a disturbing willingness to bypass the separation of powers and disregard Congress as a Constitutional… — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject… — Richard M. Nixon 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
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
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