Certain Quote by George Mason

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

There will be found to exist at all times an imperious necessity for restraining all the functionaries of the Government within the range of…

— John Tyler

There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and…

— P. Sathasivam

“It requires emphasis that the states established the American Republic and, through the Constitution, retained for themselves significant authority to ensure the republic's durability.…

— Mark R. Levin

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

“The supreme law of the State is self-preservation at any cost. And since all States, ever since they came to exist upon the earth,…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution,…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to…

— Russell Pearce

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude…

— Alexander Hamilton

“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

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One…

— Ayn Rand

The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature,…

— Alexander Hamilton