Legislative Power Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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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
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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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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or…
— Thomas Paine
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
— Baron de Montesquieu
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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the…
— Ruhollah Khomeini
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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
— Edward Gibbon
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Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.
— Millard Fillmore
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Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the…
— Laurence Tribe
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the…
— John Locke
Who Wrote These Legislative Power Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Legislative Power Quotes as follows: