Absolute power Quote by Lord Acton

The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments…

— Lord Acton

The word "federalism" you might think that means federalism trumps everything; federalism means federal domination. It does not mean that. It means the exact…

— Rush Limbaugh

One of the signs that things are going reasonably well for democracy is that we have the states where they're closer to the people.…

— Condoleezza Rice

Federalism is an intrinsic part of our constitutional set-up.

— Naveen Patnaik

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

— Anonymous

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

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not…

— Roy Moore

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more…

— Rudolph Rummel

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

— Elizabeth Price Foley

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects,…

— James Madison

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

— Sydney J. Harris