Acres Quote by Earl Warren

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

— Earl Warren

“Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is…

— Earl Warren

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

— Daniel Webster

Our legislatures are not built to allow working people to participate as members. Neither, for that matter, is our political system writ large.

— Jamelle Bouie

Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.

— William O. Douglas

The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

— Rufus King

Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.

— Bill Dedman

The Constitution is clear; appropriations powers sit with the legislature.

— Dean Phillips

Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the…

— Albert Einstein

For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of…

— James Madison

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

— Kathy Szeliga