Cases Quote by Henry Clay

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.

— Benjamin Wittes

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period,…

— George Washington

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the…

— Alexander Hamilton

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious…

— George Mason

“[...] genuine power doesn't have to enforce it by example. Assumed power, on the other hand, requires folks' belief–it depends upon the victim's industry.…

— Steve Aylett

This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same…

— Alexander Hamilton

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

— Abigail Adams

Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced,…

— Michel Foucault

[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to…

— Alexander Hamilton

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

— Swami Vivekananda

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that…

— Thomas Paine

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

— Alexander Hamilton