Federal government Quote by Mark Meckler

The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government in...the Constitution,…

— Milton Friedman

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution,…

— Thomas Jefferson

America's founders were clear that the Constitution established a federal government of few and defined powers. It cannot regulate any activity it chooses, but…

— Orrin Hatch

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain…

— Jefferson Davis

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense…

— James Madison

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

— Naveen Patnaik

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

— William Rehnquist

“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which has been…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,…

— Joseph Story

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is…

— Thomas Jefferson