Consideration Quote by Alexander Hamilton

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

— James Madison

The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the…

— Alexander Hamilton

[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to…

— Alexander Hamilton

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution…

— John Adams

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

— James Madison

[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes -…

— Alexander Hamilton

[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their,…

— Thomas Jefferson

[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself…

— H. L. Mencken

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

— Charles Evans Hughes

[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression,…

— James Madison

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .

— Edward Gibbon