The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The separation of powers is about legislative powers. It isn't about discussion or words. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“as a planned result of the separation of powers, the president must persuade Congress of the rightness of his choices, and that… — Jack Cashill 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
There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers. — Ricardo Lagos Copy Share Image
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the… — James Madison 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
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
When it comes to the separation of powers, the Constitution makes it look pretty simple: Congress makes the laws, the president enforces… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions'… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also… — Feisal Abdul Rauf 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
“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
To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Of the trials that Eisenhower encountered in politics, McCarthy’s behavior was the most difficult to abide. In his private correspondence, Eisenhower repeatedly… — John A. Farrell 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
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution… — James Madison 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
“Trends working at least marginally towards the implantation of a very narrow range of attitudes, memories and opinions include control of major… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In turning now to the principle of dialogue underlying the Constitution's structure, it is important first to note a basic distinction. The… — Thomas O. Sargentich 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
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
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
Anyone who has followed my work knows that I'm an advocate of reducing the power of the High Court of Justice, according… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
The bedrock principle of separation of powers ought to be upheld regardless of the (D) or (R) that rests behind a given… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections. — Bruce Fein Copy Share Image
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