Affairs Quote by Dick Thornburgh

“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects,…

— James Madison

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government…

— Dick Thornburgh

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression…

— Benjamin Tucker

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

— John Galt

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Adrian Cronauer

The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant…

— Ayn Rand

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are expressly granted…

— James K. Polk

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or,…

— Alexander Hamilton