Approach Quote by Clarence Thomas

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate…

— Ed Crane

I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known…

— James Madison

It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the…

— Thomas Jefferson

The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may…

— Oliver Ellsworth

The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This…

— Mike Huckabee

Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses…

— Neal A. Maxwell

there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of…

— James Madison

One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature…

— Alexander Hamilton

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

— Henry Knox

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed,

— Ron Paul

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

— Trey Gowdy