Against Quote by Melville Fuller

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

— Daniel Webster

The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

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

“The arm of the Federal government is long, but it is far too short to protect the rights of individuals in the interior of…

— Frederick Douglass

“within rigidly circumscribed guidelines. All powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people. The Founding Fathers…

— Mark Meckler

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

— Elizabeth Price Foley

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose…

— Anonymous

“The Constitution seeks to protect the basic rights of the people and the spirit of human liberty against encroachment by the state. Hence”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to…

— James Madison

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The Supreme Court has been clear that states have the right to protect their citizens against out-of-state regulations that would burden those citizens.

— Josh Hawley