Among Quote by Anonymous

Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into…

— Thomas Sowell

When it comes to the separation of powers, the Constitution makes it look pretty simple: Congress makes the laws, the president enforces them and…

— Asha Rangappa

In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the powers are…

— Philip M. Breedlove

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and…

— Baron de Montesquieu

We are a nation of United States - a constitutional republic made up of individually governed states empowering three equal branches of government to…

— Phil Scott

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it…

— Thomas Jefferson

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

— Chuck Schumer

I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and…

— P. Sathasivam

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

— Thomas Jefferson