Cases Quote by James Madison

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are expressly granted…

— James K. Polk

The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to…

— John Marshall

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

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

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense…

— James Madison

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves…

— 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

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited…

— Clarence Thomas

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,…

— Joseph Story

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and…

— Anonymous

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

— Thomas Jefferson

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise…

— Dick Thornburgh