Assembly Quote by John Adams

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control…

— John Stuart Mill

“Executive power thus could be exercised adjacent to legislation without actually trespassing on legislative power. The executive, for example, could make regulations and interpretations…

— Philip Hamburger

It is well settled in our Constitutional scheme that all Parliamentary Acts and mandates bind the executive. Any executive act, which violates any express…

— Prashant Bhushan

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

“By the same token, the executive cannot exercise legislative power, even if it has legislative authorization, for when it acts alone, it is a…

— Philip Hamburger

“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature…

— Thomas Jefferson

More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal…

— William J. Brennan

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

— Michael Parenti

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

The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may…

— Oliver Ellsworth

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by…

— James Madison

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are…

— Henry Knox