Branches Quote by James Madison

As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches…

— James Madison

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

— Fred Hampton

The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

— James Madison

We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

— Barbara Jordan

“No government should be given too much power, or the people comprising that government will use the power in the worst ways possible; individual…

— Andrew Breitbart

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

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type…

— Mao Zedong

People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty…

— Jonathan Turley

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

“Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on…

— Ayn Rand

But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

— Roy Moore