2 amendment Quote by James Madison

Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate…

— Michael Ignatieff

On the cautionary side, Universal Jurisdiction could be used to achieve some kind of ideologically motivated criminalisation of 'the other' that would discredit and…

— Richard A. Falk

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government…

— Ferdinand Marcos

All authority belongs to the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would…

— James Madison

All authority comes from the people.

— Michael Davies

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

— Anonymous

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and…

— Federica Montseny

The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature,…

— Alexander Hamilton

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

— Honore Gabriel Riquet

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

— Seneca the Younger