State Legislatures Quotes
25 quotes by 20 authors
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right…
— Bob Barr
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this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
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The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving…
— James Madison
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Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would…
— Alexander Hamilton
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For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the…
— James Madison
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there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the…
— James Madison
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And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a…
— John Grisham
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The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this,…
— Christopher Peterson
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There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this…
— John Dickinson
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...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various states...are typically composed..of…
— Milton Friedman
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An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on…
— Sandra Fluke
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I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering…
— Al Gore
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How do you react when your own government lies to you systematically about life-and-death questions? As I have noted earlier, the answer is political action…
— Harris L Coulter
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I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and…
— Bernie Sanders
Who Wrote These State Legislatures Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 25 State Legislatures Quotes as follows: