Constitution Quote by James Madison

The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but…

— Andrew Jackson

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that…

— John Locke

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

there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of…

— James Madison

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Madison suggested that the president should have “power to carry into effect the national laws, to appoint to offices in cases not otherwise provided…

— Brion T. McClanahan

The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.

— John Marshall

The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they…

— John Locke

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 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 question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to…

— William Rawle