Adopted Quote by Charles Evans Hughes

This is a limiting factor in the way we have been able to help, ... We need to determine to what extent does an…

— Richard Burr

“Presidential Order under Article 359(1) could suspend, during Emergency, the right to move any court for the enforcement of fundamental rights mentioned in the…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to cope with…

— Thomas Sowell

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

— Roy Moore

“Pointing to a trend in Western democracies, Agamben posits that the declaration of an emergency state of exception itself has gradually been replaced by…

— Nicholas De Genova

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and…

— Joseph Sobran

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,…

— Joseph Story

As an Asst. Secretary of State, I often urged authoritarian governments around the world not to use emergency powers to defy their legislatures, courts,…

— Tom Malinowski

The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of…

— Adolf Hitler

In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a…

— Henry Clay

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it…

— Joseph Story

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible…

— Alexander Hamilton