Authority Quote by Lysander Spooner

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

— William H. Seward

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of…

— Lysander Spooner

No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not…

— Lysander Spooner

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.

— Benjamin Wittes

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument…

— Andrew Johnson

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from…

— Thomas Jefferson

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

— Ugo Betti

The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."

— Lysander Spooner

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

— George Washington

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period,…

— George Washington

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the…

— William H. Seward

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when…

— John Marshall