Federal Quotes

1071 Federal quotes by 648 unique authors

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights… — Marty Meehan
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as… — Dick Thornburgh
When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states… — DeForest Soaries
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico… — Dick Thornburgh
I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was… — Patrick McHenry
The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third… — Milton Friedman
Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands of the ninja… — Jeff Cooper
The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to… — James Madison
It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people… — James Madison
After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United… — Alexander Hamilton
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly… — James Madison
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the… — Alexander Hamilton
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a… — Alexander Hamilton
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary… — James Madison
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of… — James Madison
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting… — James Madison
The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving… — James Madison
It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which… — Alexander Hamilton
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;… — James Madison
The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow)… — Thomas Jefferson

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