Acknowledge Quote by James Madison

As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that…

— James Madison

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

If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon…

— Alexander Hamilton

[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to…

— James Madison

My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects,…

— James Madison

On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others…

— James Madison

THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of…

— James Madison

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon…

— John Adams

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