Bill of rights Quote by Historica Press

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated…

— Dean Ornish

“if the nation were to be stable, individual rights had to be exercised according to rules that all people could understand and trust.”

— Condoleezza Rice

“Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers and of…

— Thomas Sowell

I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and…

— James Clapper

“Of course we can establish constitutional checks and balances, but those won’t mean a thing unless citizens make sure the safeguards are taken seriously.…

— David Brin

“This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government’s petty, silly, pointless laws they…

— Jeremy Clarkson

The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.

— Scott Pruitt

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their…

— Ron Paul

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

Our system of government works best when there are checks and balances led by independent entities that are empowered to conduct fair and rigorous…

— Letitia James

Going back all the way to the founding, there was a recognition that in the same way that you need the Constitution to create…

— Lina Khan