Activity Quote by James Madison

I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.

— Richard Ebeling

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by…

— J. Reuben Clark

I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to…

— James Madison

Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

— Ralph Nader

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

— Millard Fillmore

The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is…

— Molly Ivins

The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers…

— Thomas Jefferson

To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down…

— James Madison

Government is connected to everything we do.

— Jesse Ventura

The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of…

— James Madison

“All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract,…

— George Washington