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Legislative Quotes by James Madison
- It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as…
- The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood,…
- The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
- [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…
- 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…
- 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].…
- What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers…
- Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by…
- The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more…
- The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion....
- I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I…
- In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to…
- The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or…
- Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
- The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or…
More Legislative Quotes
- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will… — Samuel Adams
- Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
- Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage,… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
- I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to… — Hillary Clinton
- It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the… — Alexander Hamilton
- The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which… — Alexander Hamilton
- Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on… — Ken Robinson
- I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great… — Douglas MacArthur
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson
- Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. — Bertrand Russell
- Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the… — Ayn Rand