Legislative Quotes

197 quotes by 142 authors

The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end,… — Helen Prejean
Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects. — Stanley Forman Reed
Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so… — Kyra Sedgwick
A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. — John Marshall
As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions… — Immanuel Wallerstein
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the… — Martin Van Buren
Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised… — James Madison
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and… — James Madison
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each… — James Madison
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;… — Joseph Story
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent… — Thomas Jefferson
Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three… — James Madison
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive… — James Madison
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,… — James Madison
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will… — James Madison
The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood,… — James Madison
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. — James Madison
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a… — James Madison
The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will… — James Madison
I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power].… — James Madison

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