Branches Of Government Quotes
21 Branches Of Government quotes by 18 unique authors
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The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
— Michele Bachmann
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As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of…
— James Madison
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We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior…
— Howard Zinn
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It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with…
— Bob Woodward
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Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to…
— Patrick Henry
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[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
— Jeremy Bentham
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The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.
— Todd Akin
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I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the…
— Amy Klobuchar
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The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in…
— Harry Reid
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If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government —…
— Walter Cronkite
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I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel it's…
— Rick Santorum
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We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government…
— James Madison
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When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then…
— David Mamet
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Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by…
— Richard M. Nixon
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For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These Branches Of Government Quotes
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