Nature Quote by Benjamin Wittes

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

— Byron Dorgan

Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in…

— Thomas Jefferson

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,…

— Joseph Story

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

— Stephen W Comiskey

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

— William H. Seward

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without…

— Thomas Paine

“Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.”

— Jurgen Appelo

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period,…

— George Washington

The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but…

— Andrew Jackson

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents;…

— John C. Calhoun

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