Constitution Quote by John Dickinson

In a federal structure such as ours, state governments are imperative for the smooth functioning of our overall polity. They can't just be wished…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption…

— James Madison

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

— Kathy Szeliga

A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a people cannot…

— John Adams

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can…

— Joseph Story

When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

— Henry Knox

The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power,…

— Alexander Hamilton

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

— Gore Vidal

“The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government…

— Milton Friedman

If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.

— Dave Ramsey

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,…

— Frances Wright