Certain Quote by James Madison

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are…

— Joseph Story

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights…

— Richard Perle

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

In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making…

— James Madison

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can…

— Joseph Story

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

— Roger Sherman

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

— Ayanna Pressley

In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the…

— John C. Calhoun

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government

— Thomas Jefferson