Government Quote by George Mason

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States…

— Anonymous

Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about…

— Robert Kennedy

“Do we want to live in a cosmetically updated version of midcentury Virginia, in a country that so elevates property rights as to paralyze…

— Nancy MacLean

Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by…

— James Madison

Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and…

— James Madison

I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“within rigidly circumscribed guidelines. All powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people. The Founding Fathers…

— Mark Meckler

“Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a…

— Alexander Hamilton

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull

“in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected…

— Tony Judt

“Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which…

— George Washington

“He supported Jefferson’s proposed Land Ordinance of 1784,22 ceding Virginia’s western territory to Congress for division into fourteen future states in which “there shall…

— Harlow Giles Unger