Body Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be…

— James Madison

The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to…

— James Madison

If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to…

— William Blackstone

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.

— Benjamin Wittes

The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers…

— Thomas Jefferson

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that…

— John Locke

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.

— Anthony Kennedy

My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.

— Ayelet Shaked