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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“Do Americans still broadly believe that a president’s gradual assumption of dictatorial power must be halted? That the constitutional equilibrium of divided… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a… — James Madison 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
America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The… — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“The political liberty, of the subject, (separation of powers), is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The fundamental idea is that through the separation of powers and checks and balances, different voices—those of the President, the Senate, and… — Thomas O. Sargentich 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
“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 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
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 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
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
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 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
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 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
The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Our forefathers understood the dangers of consolidated power. This is why they provided for a separation of powers within the U.S. Government… — Barry McGowan Copy Share Image
I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the… — P. Sathasivam 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
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
“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
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
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